linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless update of refcount

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxwjx30pC=kcfvOzgJvt2KK9DLm2i6JKYYz+mtOOJEnMA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:52:18 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Cc:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Where is this a.out file from or how to generate it?

Oh, that's just the silly threaded test-binary. I don't know what you
called it.

As to your config options, yesh, you have some expensive stuff.
DEBUG_OBJECTS and DEBUG_MUTEXES in particular tend to cause lots of
horrible performance issues. I didn't check if there might be other
things..

                Linusc
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