Re: [PATCH 2/2] mutex: Apply adaptive spinning on mutex_trylock()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:41:51AM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
>         USER   SYSTEM   SIRQ    CXTSW  THROUGHPUT
>  SIMPLE 61107  354977    217  8099529  845.100 MB/sec
>  SPIN   63140  364888    214  6840527  879.077 MB/sec
> 
> On various runs, the adaptive spinning trylock consistently posts
> higher throughput.  The amount of difference varies but it outperforms
> consistently.

I've been running more of these tests and am having doubts about the
consistency.  It seems that, even on a fresh filesystem, some random
initial condition seems to have persistent effect on the whole run.
I'll run more tests and report back.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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