Re: increased vmap_area_lock contentions on "n_tty: Move buffersinto n_tty_data"

[Fengguang Wu]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:42:11PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 11:38 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:17:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >>On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 08:51:33AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >>>Hi Peter,
> >>>
> >>>FYI, we noticed much increased vmap_area_lock contentions since this
> >>>commit:
> >>
> >>What does that mean?  What is happening, are we allocating/removing more
> >>memory now?
> >
> >// leave this question to Peter and Tejun. :)
> >
> >>What type of load were you running that showed this problem?
> >
> >The increased contentions and lock hold/wait time showed up in a
> >number of test cases.
> 
> How is the raw data acquired?
> 
> For example, is the test apparatus reading from /proc/vmallocinfo
> (which claims the vmap_area_lock) during the test execution?

We didn't read /proc/vmallocinfo and read /proc/lock_stat once when
the test ends.

> I'm wondering if a Heisenberg effect is happening here.

Thanks,
Fengguang
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