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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:47:33 +0100
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove BKL from NFS read/write code + SunRPC...
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>>>>> " " == Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> writes:

     > Trond Myklebust wrote:
    >> The following patch strongly reduces BKL contention within the
    >> NFS read/write code, and within the generic RPC layer.

     > Do you have any benchmarks which showed BKL contention in the
     > NFS code?
     >   I'm not trying to criticize, I think the patch is wonderful.
     >   I want
     > to have some more numbers to say, "Look!  The BKL _is_ bad!"

See Chuck's paper on

  http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfs-perf/results/cel/write-throughput.html


Cheers,
  Trond
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