Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-16 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:00 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:24:58 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > > > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-16 Thread NeilBrown
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:24:58 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name > > lookup. > > As discussed I don't have time to properly

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-16 Thread NeilBrown
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:24:58 +0800 Ian Kent ra...@themaw.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. As discussed I don't have time to

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-16 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 16:00 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:24:58 +0800 Ian Kent ra...@themaw.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-15 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name > lookup. As discussed I don't have time to properly test these just now but I'll do my best to review the patches and

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-15 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. As discussed I don't have time to properly test these just now but I'll do my best to review the patches and

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 18:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:43:40 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > > > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread NeilBrown
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:43:40 +0800 Ian Kent wrote: > On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name > > lookup. > > > > This can cause a significant

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 15:43 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: > > Thanks for your effort Bruce, Oh boy, where did that come from, sorry Neil, ;) > Ian > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately > aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name > lookup. > > This can cause a significant performance impact on multi-core > systems. > I have a client with a test

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. This can cause a significant performance impact on multi-core systems. I have a client with a test case

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 15:43 +0800, Ian Kent wrote: Thanks for your effort Bruce, Oh boy, where did that come from, sorry Neil, ;) Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread NeilBrown
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:43:40 +0800 Ian Kent ra...@themaw.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. This can cause a significant

Re: [PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-10 Thread Ian Kent
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 18:25 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:43:40 +0800 Ian Kent ra...@themaw.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 09:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for

[PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-09 Thread NeilBrown
autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. This can cause a significant performance impact on multi-core systems. I have a client with a test case which spends >80% of its time waiting for spinlocks with a

[PATCH 0/6] autofs4: support RCU-walk

2014-07-09 Thread NeilBrown
autofs4 currently doesn't support RCU-walk - it immediately aborts any attempt at RCU-walk to force REF-walk for path name lookup. This can cause a significant performance impact on multi-core systems. I have a client with a test case which spends 80% of its time waiting for spinlocks with a make