On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-11-22 20:21, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Doesn't sound like a fsdevel issue since it seems to be independent of >> filesystems. More like some generic block layer thing. Adding Jens >> (and quoting the whole thing) >> >> Jens, any ideas? Most of your stuff came in after -rc2, which would >> fit with the fact that most of the slowdown seems to be after -rc2 >> according to Jeff. > > No ideas. Looking at what went in from my side, only the rq plug sorting > is a core change, and that should not cause any change in behaviour for > a single device. That's commit 975927b9. > >> Jeff, more bisecting would be good, though. > > Probably required, yes... This one slows mount from 0.012s to 0.168s. commit 62ac665ff9fc07497ca524bd20d6a96893d11071 Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Sep 26 07:46:43 2012 +0200 blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore There were couple of more changes to percpu-rw-semaphores after 3.7.0-rc2 and those slows mount further from 0.168s to 0.500s. I don't really know, but I'm suspecting these. Still bisecting. commit 5c1eabe68501d1e1b1586c7f4c46cc531828c4ab Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 22 19:37:47 2012 -0400 percpu-rw-semaphores: use light/heavy barriers commit 1bf11c53535ab87e3bf14ecdf6747bf46f601c5d Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 22 19:39:16 2012 -0400 percpu-rw-semaphores: use rcu_read_lock_sched commit 1a25b1c4ce189e3926f2981f3302352a930086db Author: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 15 17:20:17 2012 -0400 Lock splice_read and splice_write functions I couldn't unpatch with the latest kernel, but still trying. Jeff -- 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