On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:51:18PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > This patch-set breaks up the global file_list_lock which was found to be a > severe contention point under basically any filesystem intensive workload.
Benchmarks, please. Where exactly do you see contention for this? filesystem intensive workload apparently means namespace operation heavy workload, right? The biggest bottleneck I've seen with those is dcache lock. Even if this is becoming a real problem there must be simpler ways to fix this than introducing various new locking primitives and all kinds of complexity. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
