Re: High lock spin time for zone->lru_lock under extreme conditions

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:46:22 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > While the softlockups and the like went away by enabling interrupts during
> > spinning, as mentioned in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/29 ,
> > Andi thought maybe this is exposing a problem with zone->lru_locks and 
> > hence warrants a discussion on lkml, hence this post.  Are there any 
> > plans/patches/ideas to address the spin time under such extreme conditions?
> 
> Could this be a hardware problem? Some issue with atomic ops in the 
> Sun hardware?

I'd assume so.  We don't hold lru_lock for 33 seconds ;)

Probably similar symptoms are demonstrable using other locks, if a
suitable workload is chosen.

Increasing PAGEVEC_SIZE might help.  But we do allocate those things
on the stack.
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