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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.70-mm1
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:30:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39810000.1054240214@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529115237.33c9c09a.akpm@digeo.com>

> OK, a 10x improvement isn't too bad.  I'm hoping the gap between ext2 and
> ext3 is mainly idle time and not spinning-on-locks time.
> 
> 
>> 
>>    2024927   267.3% total
>>    1677960   472.8% default_idle
>>     116350     0.0% .text.lock.transaction
>>      42783     0.0% do_get_write_access
>>      40293     0.0% journal_dirty_metadata
>>      34251  6414.0% __down
>>      27867  9166.8% .text.lock.attr
> 
> Bah.  In inode_setattr(), move the mark_inode_dirty() outside
> lock_kernel().

OK, will do. 

>>      20016  2619.9% __wake_up
>>      19632   927.4% schedule
>>      12204     0.0% .text.lock.sched
>>      12128     0.0% start_this_handle
>>      10011     0.0% journal_add_journal_head
> 
> hm, lots of context switches still.

I think that's ext3 busily kicking the living crap out of semaphores ;-)
See __down above ...

M.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-29 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-27  7:42 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-27 10:38 ` 2.5.70-mm1 Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-05-27 20:33   ` 2.5.70-mm1 Ed Tomlinson
2003-05-27 20:49     ` 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-27 23:05       ` 2.5.70-mm1 Ed Tomlinson
2003-05-28 17:10 ` 2.5.70-mm1 Mingming Cao
2003-05-28 19:44   ` 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-29  6:23 ` 2.5.70-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-29 18:40   ` 2.5.70-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-29 18:52     ` 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-29 20:30       ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-05-29 21:14         ` 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-30 15:51           ` 2.5.70-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-30 16:43             ` 2.5.70-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-30 23:51               ` 2.5.70-mm1 Martin J. Bligh
2003-06-03  6:34                 ` ext3 semaphore tracing Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-28 13:26 2.5.70-mm1 Downing, Thomas

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