Hello Peter, On (08/30/17 10:47), Peter Zijlstra wrote: [..] > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 10:42:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > So the overhead looks to be spread out over all sorts, which makes it > > harder to find and fix. > > > > stack unwinding is done lots and is fairly expensive, I've not yet > > checked if crossrelease does too much of that. > > Aah, we do an unconditional stack unwind for every __lock_acquire() now. > It keeps a trace in the xhlocks[]. > > Does the below cure most of that overhead? thanks. mostly yes. the kernel is not so dramatically slower now. it's still seems to be a bit slower, which is expected I suppose, but over all it's much better real 1m35.209s user 4m12.467s sys 0m49.457s // approx 10 seconds slower. -ss
