Re: ext4 dbench performance with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

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john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Further using lockstat I was able to isolate it the contention down to
> the journal j_state_lock, and then adding some lock owner tracking, I
> was able to see that the lock owners were almost always in
> start_this_handle, and jbd2_journal_stop when we saw contention (with
> the freq breakdown being about 55% in jbd2_journal_stop and 45% in
> start_this_handle).

FWIW we've been also seeing this on larger systems without RT.
The journal locks are the number one contention in some workloads.
So it's not just a RT problem.

-Andi

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