Re: [LKP] [lkp] [dcache_{readdir, dir_lseek}() users] 4e82901cd6: reaim.jobs_per_min -49.1% regression

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:28:36PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Here is the comparison result with perf profile information.  You can
> find it via searching 'perf-profile'.
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Looks like this load is hitting the arseloads of contention cases of
spin_lock() on various ->d_lock inside dcache_readdir().  With exclusive
lock on directory most of them end up uncontended...

I'll try to see what can be done there; quite a bit of those are actually
due to moving the cursor on every step.  I wonder if we could do the list
traversals with something less drastic - the real contents changes are
prevented by the shared lock on directory being held, after all...

I'll play with that and post when I get somewhere with it...