Re: [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64

[Andrew Morton]

William Lee Irwin III <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:24:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >> Next pass involves lockmeter:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:47:58AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Throughput 39.2014 MB/sec 128 procs
> > dbench 128  142.51s user 10828.91s system 964% cpu 18:57.88 total
> > That's an 83% reduction in throughput from applying lockmeter.
> > Um, somebody should look into this. The thing is a bloody doorstop:
> 
> Okay, dump_stack() every once in a while when we schedule() in down().

Thanks.

> No good ideas how to script the results so I have the foggiest idea
> who's the bad guy. gzipped and MIME attached (Sorry!) for space reasons.

lock_super() in the ext2 inode allocator mainly.  It needs the same treatment.