linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 11/11] locks: give the blocked

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:56:56 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@...ba.org>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, matthew@....cx, bfields@...ldses.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 11/11] locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 07:46:40 -0700
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> Having RCU for modification mostly workloads never is a good idea, so
> I don't think it makes sense to mention it here.
> 
> If you care about the overhead it's worth trying to use per-cpu lists,
> though.
> 

Yeah, I looked at those too in an earlier set and it did help some.
Moving to a hashtable for the blocked_list really seemed to help the
most there, but percpu lists with lglocks or something might help a lot
on the file_lock_list.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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