linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/sem.c: Bug fixes, regression fixes, v3

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Date:	Sun, 26 May 2013 15:59:42 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>
Cc:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hai Huang <hhuang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipc/sem.c: Bug fixes, regression fixes, v3

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com> wrote:
>
> In lack of getting my swingbench DSS environment back, I ran these
> changes against the semop-multi program on my laptop. For 256 threads,
> with Manfred's patchset the ops/sec suffers around -7.3%.

Hmm. That test program only tests simple ops, right? So the slowdown
comes from either the code simply being that much slower due to extra
complexity, or from the fair wakeups..

Anyway, I applied 1/4, we can continue to discuss the rest.

          Linus
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