Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756847Ab3H3QwY (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:52:24 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:62162 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756457Ab3H3QwV (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:52:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1375758759-29629-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com> <1375758759-29629-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com> <1377751465.4028.20.camel@pasglop> <20130829070012.GC27322@gmail.com> <52200DAE.2020303@hp.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:52:18 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Gj7TtaTv8kULsjErJQkQ4q66pO0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount From: Linus Torvalds To: Sedat Dilek Cc: Waiman Long , Ingo Molnar , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Alexander Viro , Jeff Layton , Miklos Szeredi , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Andi Kleen , "Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" , "Norton, Scott J" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 18 On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote: > > Where is this a.out file from or how to generate it? Oh, that's just the silly threaded test-binary. I don't know what you called it. As to your config options, yesh, you have some expensive stuff. DEBUG_OBJECTS and DEBUG_MUTEXES in particular tend to cause lots of horrible performance issues. I didn't check if there might be other things.. Linusc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/