Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 Ã 18:20 +1100, Nick Piggin a Ãcrit : > I don't think the patchset has suddenly become vastly more urgent > in the past month, so I think my approach of having it get a lot > of testing and go in Al's vfs tree for a while is best. > Hi Nick Not vastly urgent, but highly wanted on many workloads, even ones not really related to 'fs'... In current tree, a "close(socket())" needs 31 us on a 2x4x2 machine, instead of 1.45 us if single thread. But yes, I agree a lot of testing is needed :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PerfTop: 16584 irqs/sec kernel:99.8% exact: 0.0% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 16 CPUs) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- samples pcnt function DSO _______ _____ ________________________ _______ 101217.00 87.8% _raw_spin_lock vmlinux 1365.00 1.2% kmem_cache_alloc vmlinux 1220.00 1.1% d_alloc vmlinux 1159.00 1.0% sock_alloc_file vmlinux 881.00 0.8% __d_instantiate vmlinux 657.00 0.6% memset vmlinux 516.00 0.4% dput vmlinux 423.00 0.4% new_inode vmlinux 401.00 0.3% _atomic_dec_and_lock vmlinux 397.00 0.3% iput vmlinux 358.00 0.3% dentry_iput vmlinux 320.00 0.3% kmem_cache_free vmlinux 309.00 0.3% __slab_free vmlinux 297.00 0.3% __sk_free vmlinux 264.00 0.2% kmem_cache_alloc_notrace vmlinux 263.00 0.2% __call_rcu vmlinux Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html