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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] lockmeter results comparing 2.4.17, 2.5.3, and 2.5.5
> inode_lock hold times are a problem for other reasons.  Leaving this
> unfixed makes the preepmtible kernel rather pointless.... An ideal
> fix would be to release inodes based on VM pressure against their backing
> page. But I don't think anyone's started looking at inode_lock yet.
>
> The big one is lru_list_lock, of course. I'll be releasing code in
> the next couple of days which should take that off the map. Testing
> would be appreciated.

Seeing as people seem to be interested ... there are some big holders
of BKL around too - do_exit shows up badly (50ms in the data Hanna
posted, and I've seen that a lot before). I've seen sync_old_buffers
hold the BKL for 64ms on an 8way Specweb99 run (22Gb of RAM?)
(though this was on an older 2.4 kernel, and might be fixed by now).

M.
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