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SubjectRe: [PATCH, v2] anon_vmas: Convert the rwsem to an rwlock_t
On 09/30/2013 03:23 PM, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 20:14 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:10:27AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
>>> Here's the exim workload data:
>>>
>>> rwsem improvment:
>>> Waimain's patch: +2.0%
>>> Alex+Tim's patchset: +4.8%
>>> Waiman+Alex+Tim: +5.3%
>>>
>>> convert rwsem to rwlock_t for root anon_vma lock
>>> Ingo's patch +11.7%
>>>
>> What happens if you stuff Waiman's qrwlock patches on top of that?
>> admittedly and oft mentioned in this thread, our current rwlock_t is
>> somewhat suboptimal under a number of conditions.
> I've tested with Waiman's qrwlock patches on top of Ingo's patches.
> It does not affect the throughput for exim and I still get
> about +11.7% throughput change (same as with Ingo's patch only).
>
> Tim
>

My qrwlock doesn't enable qrwlock by default. You have to use menuconfig
to explicitly enable it. Have you done that when you build the test
kernel? I am thinking of explicitly enabling it for x86 if the anon-vma
lock is converted back to a rwlock.

-Longman


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