Re: [PATCH] 2.5: push BKL out of llseek

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
29 Jan 2002 21:37:57 -0500


On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 21:21, Dave Jones wrote:

> did you benchmark with anything other than dbench ?

No, and I really don't want to hear how dbench is a terrible benchmark.
I didn't craft the patch around dbench and I think, here at least,
dbench is an OK benchmark. I ran it numerous times over multiple client
loads.

I think its clear there won't be a negative impact, because:

- acquiring the inode semaphore isn't any heavier (in the acquire
case) than the BKL

- the lock contention on each inode semaphore is relatively
zero

- besides just scaling badly with the using a global lock against
all inodes, we use the BKL which in such workloads is already
highly contested.

That said, I did do some lock profiling and latency tests. Contention
was near-zero, but I only did 2-way testing. Under the preemptible
kernel, while running dbench, scheduling latency improved 8.9%.

Robert Love

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