Re: more dput lock contentions in 2.6.38-rc?

[Shaohua Li]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:44:45AM +0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:26 +0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 09:04 +0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> > we are testing dbench benchmark and see big drop of 2.6.38-rc compared
> >> >> > to 2.6.37 in several machines with 2 sockets or 4 sockets. We have 12
> >> >> > disks mount to /mnt/stp/dbenchdata/sd*/ and dbench runs against data of
> >> >> > the disks. According to perf, we saw more lock contentions:
> >> >> > In 2.6.37: 13.00%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
> >> >> > In 2.6.38-rc: 69.45%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k]_raw_spin_lock
> >> >> > -     69.45%        dbench  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _raw_spin_lock
> >> >> >   - _raw_spin_lock
> >> >> >      - 48.41% dput
> >> >> >         - 61.17% path_put
> >> >> >            - 60.47% do_path_lookup
> >> >> >               + 53.18% user_path_at
> >> >> >               + 42.13% do_filp_open
> >> >> >               + 4.69% user_path_parent
> >> >>
> >> >> What filesystems are mounted on the path?
> >> > ext3 or ext4
> >>
> >> ext3 or 4 along every step of the path? Are there
> >> any acls loaded, or security policy running?
> > all disks are formated with the same fs, just some machines use ext3 and
> > others ext4. no we don't have acl or security policy.
> >> It may be possible that they're all coming from
> >> /proc/ access.
> > I added trace in dput just after the lock taken. and most files are '/',
> > 'mnt', 'stp'. the percentage of 'proc' is small actually.
> 
> Hm, OK well I could send you a patch to gather some statistics for
> why rcu-walk gets dropped. It'll have to wait until I get home, though.
Sure, I'm still at office tomorrow. I can test before that day, otherwise
maybe Tim can help.
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