On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Below is the perf data of my short workloads run in an 80-core DL980: Ok, that doesn't look much like d_lock any more. Sure, there's a small amount of spinlocking going on with lockref being involved, but on the whole even that looks more like getcwd and other random things. I do agree that getcwd() can probably be hugely optimized. Nobody has ever bothered, because it's never really performance-critical, and I think AIM7 ends up just doing something really odd. I bet we could fix it entirely if we cared enough. I just wonder if it's even worth it (I assume AIM7 is something HP uses internally, because I've never really heard of anybody else caring) But I'll look at getcwd anyway. Linus -- 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