Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:13:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:13:32 -0500 Received: from ausmtp02.au.ibm.COM ([202.135.136.105]:16119 "EHLO ausmtp02.au.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 08:13:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:46:09 +0530 From: Dipankar Sarma To: Anton Blanchard Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile Message-ID: <20020314184609.D15394@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20020313085217.GA11658@krispykreme> <460695164.1016001894@[10.10.2.3]> <20020314112725.GA2008@krispykreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020314112725.GA2008@krispykreme>; from anton@samba.org on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:27:26PM +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:27:26PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > 554 .d_lookup > > > > Did you try the dcache patches? > > Not for this, I did do some benchmarking of the RCU dcache patches a > while ago which I should post. Please do ;-) This shows why we need to ease the pressure on dcache_lock. > > > Can you publish lockmeter stats? > > I didnt get a chance to run lockmeter, I tend to use the kernel profiler > and use a hacked readprofile (originally from tridge) that displays > profile hits vs assembly instruction. Thats usually good enough to work > out which spinlocks are a problem. Is this a PPC only hack ? Also, where can I get it ? Thanks -- Dipankar Sarma http://lse.sourceforge.net Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India. - 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/