Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2008 16:33:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] speed up / fix the new generic semaphore code (fix AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1) |
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On Fri, 9 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > I don't think fixing n_tty is now a big job if someone wants to take a > swing at it. The driver write/throttle/etc routines below the n_tty ldisc > layer are now BKL clean so it should just be the internal locking of the > buffers, window and the like to tackle.
Well, it turns out that Ingo's fixed statistics actually put the real cost in fcntl/ioctl/open/release:
310 down <= lock_kernel <= sys_fcntl <= system_call_after_swapgs < 332 down <= lock_kernel <= vfs_ioctl <= do_vfs_ioctl < 380 down <= lock_kernel <= tty_release <= __fput < 422 down <= lock_kernel <= chrdev_open <= __dentry_open <
rather than the write routines. But it may be that Ingo was just profiling two different sections, and it's really all of them.
Linus
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