From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] speed up / fix the new generic semaphore code (fix AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1)
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 08:50:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080509065032.GB15754@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805081631440.2940@woody.linux-foundation.org>
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > I don't think fixing n_tty is now a big job if someone wants to take
> > a swing at it. The driver write/throttle/etc routines below the
> > n_tty ldisc layer are now BKL clean so it should just be the
> > internal locking of the buffers, window and the like to tackle.
>
> Well, it turns out that Ingo's fixed statistics actually put the real
> cost in fcntl/ioctl/open/release:
>
> 310 down <= lock_kernel <= sys_fcntl <= system_call_after_swapgs <
> 332 down <= lock_kernel <= vfs_ioctl <= do_vfs_ioctl <
> 380 down <= lock_kernel <= tty_release <= __fput <
> 422 down <= lock_kernel <= chrdev_open <= __dentry_open <
>
> rather than the write routines. But it may be that Ingo was just
> profiling two different sections, and it's really all of them.
the first trace had general desktop load mixed into it as well - so
while it's not interesting to AIM7 the BKL does matter in those
situations and i'd not be surprised if it was responsible for certain
categories of desktop lag.
The second trace was the correct 'pure' AIM7 workload which produces
very little tty output. It is a quite stable workload and the trace i
uploaded is representative of the totality of that workload. AIM7 runs
for several minutes so there's no significant rampup/rampdown
interaction either.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-09 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 5:48 AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-06 11:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 11:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06 12:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 16:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 16:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 16:39 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-06 16:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-06 17:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-06 16:44 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-05-06 17:21 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-06 17:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-06 18:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-11 11:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-06 17:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 6:49 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-06 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 16:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 17:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 18:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 18:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 19:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 19:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 19:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 20:00 ` Oi. NFS people. Read this Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 22:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-05-09 1:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-05-08 3:24 ` AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 3:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 4:37 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 14:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 2:11 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 3:41 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 3:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 4:46 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 6:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 6:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 7:05 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 11:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-07 11:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 12:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-07 14:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 14:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-07 15:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 15:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 14:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-07 15:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 16:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 15:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 2:44 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 3:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 4:08 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 4:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 12:01 ` [patch] speed up / fix the new generic semaphore code (fix AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 12:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 14:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 15:10 ` [git pull] scheduler fixes Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 15:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-08 15:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 19:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-11 11:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 11:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 11:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 12:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 12:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 13:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 13:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 14:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 14:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 14:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 15:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-13 14:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-13 14:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-13 14:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-13 15:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-13 17:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-13 17:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-13 21:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 13:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 14:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 14:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 14:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-11 13:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-11 13:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-11 14:10 ` Sven Wegener
2008-05-08 16:02 ` [patch] speed up / fix the new generic semaphore code (fix AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1) Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 21:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 22:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-08 23:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 23:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-09 6:50 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-05-09 8:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 13:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-08 15:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 13:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-08 6:43 ` AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 6:48 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-08 7:14 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 7:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 8:44 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08 9:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 9:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 9:30 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 16:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 16:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 17:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-05-07 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 18:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 13:59 ` Alan Cox
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