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SubjectRe: kernel lock contention and scalability

Manfred Spraul [manfred@colorfullife.com] wrote:
>
> > lock contention work would be appreciated. I'm aware of timer scalability
> > work ongoing at people.redhat.com/mingo/scalable-timers, but is anyone
> > working on reducing sem_ids contention?
>
> Is that really a problem?
> The contention is high, but the actual lost time is quite small.

I agree it isn't a major performance problem under that workload. But, I
thought since the contention was high that other workloads which may
utilize it more might have shown it to be a significant problem.

> I've attached 2 changes that might reduce the contention, but it's just
> an idea, completely untested.

Thanks for the insight into the sempahore subsystem and the suggested fixes.

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Jonathan Lahr
IBM Linux Technology Center
Beaverton, Oregon
lahr@us.ibm.com
503-578-3385

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