Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: kill-the-BKL

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 09 2009 - 17:08:32 EST



* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > After this patch, reiserfs suffers from a slight performance
> > regression (for now).
>
> That might be related to the scheduling behaviour. Watch the
> reschedule counters in vmstat 1

FYI, Frederic is one of the main upstream tracing developers, and i
can assure you that when working on scalability he watches something
far more sophisticated than "vmstat 1" ;-)

See the commit below for example.

Thanks,

Ingo

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