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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:12:38 +0100
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mutex: Apply adaptive spinning on mutex_trylock()
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Hello,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:41:51AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
>         USER   SYSTEM   SIRQ    CXTSW  THROUGHPUT
>  SIMPLE 61107  354977    217  8099529  845.100 MB/sec
>  SPIN   63140  364888    214  6840527  879.077 MB/sec
> 
> On various runs, the adaptive spinning trylock consistently posts
> higher throughput.  The amount of difference varies but it outperforms
> consistently.

I've been running more of these tests and am having doubts about the
consistency.  It seems that, even on a fresh filesystem, some random
initial condition seems to have persistent effect on the whole run.
I'll run more tests and report back.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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