linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] locking/rwsem: more aggressive use of optimistic spinning

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:48:46 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
CC:	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] locking/rwsem: more aggressive use of optimistic
 spinning

On 08/17/2014 07:41 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:58:09PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 08/14/2014 11:34 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> <create sparse vm image file of 500TB on ssd with XFS on it>
>>> xfs_io -f -c "truncate 500t" -c "extsize 1m" /path/to/vm/image/file
> ....
>> Thank for the testing recipe. I am afraid that I can't find a 500TB
>> SSD for testing purpose.
> Which bit of "sparse vm image file" didn't you understand?  I'm
> using a 400GB of SSD for this testing....
>
> $ df -h /mnt/fast-ssd
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdf        400G  275G  125G  69% /mnt/fast-ssd
> $ ls -lh /mnt/fast-ssd/vm-500t.img
> -rw------- 1 root root 500T Aug 15 13:21 /mnt/fast-ssd/vm-500t.img
> $ du -sh /mnt/fast-ssd/vm-500t.img
> 275G    /mnt/fast-ssd/vm-500t.img
>
> That is on a Samsung 840 EVO SSD, which just about everyone should
> be able to obtain. Do you *really* think I have 500TB of SSDs lying
> around?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.

I am sorry that I misunderstood your instruction. I am not a filesystem 
guy and haven't run this kind of test before.

Thank for the clarification.

-Longman
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