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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	der.herr@hofr.at, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/13] percpu rwsem -v2
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:41:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702094155.GW19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy0nKSbr6YRUV62Ns9E53yJ9Wf1KHd2+mh+G12Co-tsiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 02:54:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> wrote:
> >
> > And an attempt at visualization:
> >
> > http://monom.org/posix01/sweep-4.1.0-02756-ge3d06bd.png
> > http://monom.org/posix01/sweep-4.1.0-02769-g6ce2591.png
> 
> Ugh. The old numbers look (mostly) fairly tight, and then the new ones
> are all over the map, and usually much worse.
> 
> We've seen this behavior before when switching from a non-sleeping
> lock to a sleeping one. The sleeping locks have absolutely horrible
> behavior when they get contended, and spend tons of CPU time on the
> sleep/wakeup management, 

Right, I'm just not seeing how any of that would happen here :/ The read
side would only ever block on reading /proc/$something and I'm fairly
sure that benchmark doesn't actually touch that file.

In any case, I will look into this, I've just not had time yet..

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-22 12:16 [RFC][PATCH 00/13] percpu rwsem -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/13] rcu: Create rcu_sync infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/13] rcusync: Introduce struct rcu_sync_ops Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/13] rcusync: Add the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/13] rcusync: Introduce rcu_sync_dtor() Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/13] percpu-rwsem: Optimize readers and reduce global impact Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 23:02   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23  7:28   ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2015-06-25 19:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-25 19:17       ` Tejun Heo
2015-06-29  9:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-29 15:12           ` Tejun Heo
2015-06-29 15:14             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/13] percpu-rwsem: Provide percpu_down_read_trylock() Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 23:08   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/13] sched: Reorder task_struct Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/13] percpu-rwsem: DEFINE_STATIC_PERCPU_RWSEM Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/13] hotplug: Replace hotplug lock with percpu-rwsem Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 22:57   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23  7:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 17:01       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23 17:53         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 13:50           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-24 14:13             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 15:12               ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-24 16:15                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-28 23:56             ` [PATCH 0/3] percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rw_semaphore->recursive mode Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-28 23:56               ` [PATCH 1/3] rcusync: introduce rcu_sync_struct->exclusive mode Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-28 23:56               ` [PATCH 2/3] percpu-rwsem: don't use percpu_rw_semaphore->rw_sem to exclude writers Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-28 23:56               ` [PATCH 3/3] percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rw_semaphore->recursive mode Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/13] fs/locks: Replace lg_global with a percpu-rwsem Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/13] fs/locks: Replace lg_local with a per-cpu spinlock Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23  0:19   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/13] stop_machine: Remove lglock Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 22:21   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23 10:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 10:55       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 11:20         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 13:08           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 16:36             ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23 17:30             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-23 18:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 18:26                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-23 19:05                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24  2:23                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24  8:32                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24  9:31                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 13:48                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 15:01                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 15:34                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24  7:35                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24  8:42                     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-24 13:39                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 13:43                         ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-24 14:03                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 14:50                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 15:01                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 15:27                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 15:40                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 16:09                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 16:42                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 17:10                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 17:20                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-24 17:29                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 17:28                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 17:32                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 18:14                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24 17:58                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-25  3:23                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-25 11:07                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-25 13:47                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-25 14:20                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-25 14:51                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-26 12:32                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-26 16:14                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-29  7:56                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-30 21:32                                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-01 11:56                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-01 15:56                                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-07-01 16:16                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-01 18:45                                                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-23 14:39         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-06-23 16:20       ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-23 17:24         ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-06-25 19:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/13] locking: " Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 12:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/13] percpu rwsem -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-22 18:11 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-22 19:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23  9:35     ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-23 10:00       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-23 14:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 14:56         ` Daniel Wagner
2015-06-23 17:50           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-23 19:36             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24  8:46               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-24  9:01                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-24  9:18                 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-07-01  5:57                   ` Daniel Wagner
2015-07-01 21:54                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-07-02  9:41                       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-07-20  5:53                         ` Daniel Wagner
2015-07-20 18:44                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-06-22 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-06-23 16:10 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-06-23 16:21   ` Peter Zijlstra

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