Re: [Lse-tech] lockmeter results comparing 2.4.17, 2.5.3, and 2.5.5

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 14:45:15 EST


"Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
>
> ...
> looks a little distressing - the hold times on inode_lock by prune_icache
> look bad in terms of latency (contention is still low, but people are still
> waiting on it for a very long time). Is this a transient thing, or do people
> think this is going to be a problem?

inode_lock hold times are a problem for other reasons. Leaving this
unfixed makes the preepmtible kernel rather pointless.... An ideal
fix would be to release inodes based on VM pressure against their backing
page. But I don't think anyone's started looking at inode_lock yet.

The big one is lru_list_lock, of course. I'll be releasing code in
the next couple of days which should take that off the map. Testing
would be appreciated.

I have a concern about the lockmeter results. Lockmeter appears
to be measuring lock frequency and hold times and contention. But
is it measuring the cost of the cacheline transfers? For example,
I expect that with delayed allocation and radix-tree pagecache, one
of the major remaining bottlenecks will be ownership of the superblock
semaphore's cacheline. Is this measurable? (Actually, we may
then be at the point where copy_from_user costs dominate).

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