linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

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Message-ID: <20140226214002.GA5660@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:40:02 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>,
	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>, mingo@...nel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, riel@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davidlohr@...com, hpa@...or.com,
	andi@...stfloor.org, aswin@...com, scott.norton@...com,
	chegu_vinod@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] locking/core patches

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:58:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would propose merging the following patches...
> 
> The first set is mostly from Jason and tweaks the mutex adaptive
> spinning, AIM7 throughput numbers:
> 
> PRE:  100   2000.04  21564.90 2721.29 311.99     3.12       0.01     0.00     99
> POST: 100   2000.04  42603.85 5142.80 311.99     3.12       0.00     0.00     99
> 
> The second set is the qrwlock, although mostly rewritten by me. I didn't do
> much with it other than boot and build a kernel. But I like them because
> of the much better worst case preformance.

This series passes a short locktorture test when based on top of current
tip/core/locking.

But don't read too much into this...  This was in an 8-CPU KVM guest on
x86, and locktorture is still a bit on the lame side.  But you have to
start somewhere!

							Thanx, Paul

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