From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758468AbbIDHzz (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2015 03:55:55 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:39894 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758443AbbIDHzr (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2015 03:55:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:55:42 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Dave Chinner Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Waiman Long , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [4.2, Regression] Queued spinlocks cause major XFS performance regression Message-ID: <20150904075542.GB18489@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20150904054820.GY3902@dastard> <20150904071143.GZ3902@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150904071143.GZ3902@dastard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 05:11:43PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > $ grep PARAVIRT .config > CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y > # CONFIG_PARAVIRT_DEBUG is not set > # CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS is not set > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK=y > $ Curious, with PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS=n we _should_ end up in virt_queued_spin_lock() which is a simple test-and-set lock, much like the lock debugging code should end up being.