Subject: Nick's vfs-scalability patches ported to 2.6.33-rt
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
       John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:53:28 -0800
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Hey Thomas, Nick,
	I just wanted to let you know I've just finished forward porting Nick's
patches to 2.6.33-rc8-rt2.  Luckily my forward port of Nick's patches to
2.6.33 applies on top of the -rt tree without any collisions, and I've
added a handful of maybe sketchy fixups to get it working with -rt.

You can find the patchset here:
http://sr71.net/~jstultz/dbench-scalability/patches/2.6.33-rc8-rt2/vfs-scale.33-rt.tar.bz2

Here's a chart showing how much these patches help dbench numbers on
ramfs:
http://sr71.net/~jstultz/dbench-scalability/graphs/2.6.33/ramfs-dbench.png

I've not done any serious stress testing with the patchset yet, but
wanted to post it for your review.

Nick: I'd appreciate any feedback as to if any of my forward porting has
gone awry. I'm still very green with respect to the vfs, so I don't
doubt there are some issues hiding here.

Thomas: Let me know if you want to start playing with this in the -rt
tree. I'm not seeing any warnings with the debugging options on, so I
think I squashed all of those issues, but let me know if you manage to
trigger anything.

thanks
-john


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