On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:44:16AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Hi, > > This reiserfs patchset applies against latest tip:core/kill-the-BKL > It adds various explicit write lock releases on specific sleeping sections. > > A performance test with dbench on UP with 100 processus during 100 seconds > gives the following results: > > Locking Throughput > > Bkl: 11.2587 MB/s > Write lock/Mutex: 12.5713 MB/s I just tested on SMP with two CPU: Write Lock/Mutex: Throughput 66.9269 MB/sec 100 procs Bkl: Throughput 71.9998 MB/sec 100 procs So: UP: 11% faster SMP: 8% slower I guess there is still some work to do :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html