Re: 2.4.0test4: SMP lock contention?

Matthew Wilcox (matthew@wil.cx)
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:02:55 -0400

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:47:14PM +0100, Chris Evans wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A while ago, someone was posting interesting SMP lock contention profiles
> and contention points.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lockmeter/

> I'm curious what such a profile looks like now that various bits of the
> VFS and particularly the dcache, have been fine-grain SMP locked. You have
> to wonder if there are any big contentions left ;-)

I wonder too, but I don't have a 4 way SMP machine to test with...

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