On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:04:32PM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote:
| More lockstats. dcache is obviously still there, but for some reason the rcu
| stuff is gone (I didn't apply Manfred's patches). I must have done some
| stuff prior to collecting the lockstat data last time that caused it.
...[snip]...
| SPINLOCKS HOLD WAIT
| UTIL CON MEAN( MAX ) MEAN( MAX )(% CPU) TOTAL NOWAIT SPIN RJECT NAME
|
| 3.1% 2.2us( 102ms) 12ms( 488ms)(35.1%) 320195677 96.9% 3.1% 0.00% *TOTAL*
...[snip]...
| 31.2% 95.2% 71us( 10ms) 37ms( 146ms)(30.2%) 2828650 4.8% 95.2% 0% rcu_check_quiescent_state+0xf0
Looks like the RCU contention is still there.
I ran some bench marks at 512p on a 2.6.5 SUSE kernel with and without
Manfred's patches 4 and 5 added (the SUSE kernel already has the 3
accepted RCU patches), and the results were very promising. I think
we'll want to pursue getting these other two RCU patches accepted.
I'll to get some lockmeter numbers on a latest -mm kernel next week.
Greg