“On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Andi Kleen <> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>and the conversion from spinlocks to mutexes for the anon_vma
locking ended up causing a scalability issue that required
fixing.
>
> FWIW it’s still ~16% slower. Does that count as fixed?“Well, so far I haven’t really seen any suggestions on how to
improve it much further.“3.0 will still be noticeably faster than 2.6.39 due to the
other changes made (ie the read-ahead), so yes, the regression
itself is fixed.“But performance on that particular benchmark with that
particular machine is clearly not optimal, in that there are known
setups that would be faster still.“Of course, the reason for the mutex conversion was _other_
Linus
loads, where the spinlocks had bad behavior. So it’s a balancing
act. And I suspect we’ve reached a reasonable point in that
balancing, yes.
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