* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Care to back that up with numbers and proper trace evidence > > instead of handwaving? > > E.g. my plumbers presentations on lock and mm scalability from > last year has some graphs that show this very clearly, plus > some additional data on the mutexes. This compares to the > glibc futex locks, which perform much better than the kernel > mutex locks on larger systems under higher contention If you mean these draft slides: http://www.halobates.de/plumbers-fork-locks_v2.pdf it has very little verifiable information in it. It just cryptically says lock hold time "microbenchmark", which might or might not be a valid measurement. You could have been honest and straightforward in your first mail: "I ran workload X on machine Y, and got results Z." Instead you are *hindering* the discussion: > Given your tone I will not supply an URL. [...] If you meant the above URL then it's not the proper numbers Thomas asked for, just some vague slides. If you meant something else then put up or shut up. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html