> Mutex profiling would show if there is a mutex somehow getting in the > way of your I/O (e.g. if Giant is somehow being forced). I dont think > it would show anything though. You can try to study interrupt issues > (e.g. look for an interrupt storm during I/O) with vmstat -i. Other > than that you'd probably have to get your hands dirtier in the code.
max total count avg cnt_hold cnt_lock name 1158725 1185330 1596 742 0 0 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:1563 (pmap) 1158721 1166593 1596 730 1 17 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:1562 (vm page queue mutex) 90598 578551 199304 2 3 4 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sx.c:157 (lockbuilder mtxpool) 83234 967612 124000 7 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:906 (vm object) 83102 2515439 450378 5 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:369 (process lock) 82878 2049540 3215 637 196 2 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:236 (Giant) 82632 947545 124000 7 0 4 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:295 (vm object) 82550 285981 124000 2 4 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:929 (process lock) 46745 46789 11 4253 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:1041 (vm object) 46741 52927 646 81 1 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:1775 (vm page queue mutex) 30068 105046 1230 85 2 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c:1380 (vm object) 24083 300793 136380 2 1 1 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:454 (vm object) 24076 32222 2960 10 2 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:625 (vm page queue mutex) 19419 70113 7295 9 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:787 (vm object) 16024 65388 5494 11 1 2 /usr/src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c:1181 (vnode interlock) 16018 51608 8791 5 7 9 /usr/src/sys/vm/vnode_pager.c:1169 (vm object) 14398 1084811 25198 43 108 3 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:1280 (Giant) 11940 274443 37582 7 0 1 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c:3082 (vm object) 11567 625811 312742 2 0 2 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_lock.c:168 (lockbuilder mtxpool) 11096 45666 5241 8 1 4 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c:2404 (vm object) If I'm reading the man page right, pmap holds a lock for over 1 second? Here's a capture with the stats reset after the Ethernet->disk process was already started up and running. max total count avg cnt_hold cnt_lock name 9649 277992 20357 13 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c:3364 (vm object) 5939 106822 1158 92 135 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:1280 (Giant) 5620 17658 29 608 2 0 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:2481 (vm page queue mutex) 5616 17502 29 603 0 0 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:2482 (pmap) 5021 446103 79641 5 1 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:369 (process lock) 3270 16597 6032 2 0 0 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:2602 (pmap) 2861 15595 7158 2 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sx.c:245 (lockbuilder mtxpool) 2811 5180 767 6 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c:2193 (vm object) 2542 22712 243 93 29 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_synch.c:236 (Giant) 2152 14813 658 22 2 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:683 (vm object) 2054 4334 991 4 1 1 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:1983 (vnode interlock) 1999 11592 2575 4 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_object.c:454 (vm object) 1497 4845 431 11 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:2185 (vnode interlock) 1157 10887 1288 8 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:2073 (vnode interlock) 1106 3920 33 118 0 0 /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c:1086 (struct mount mtx) 1082 5893 40 147 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:2805 (struct mount mtx) 905 1812 12 151 0 0 /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c:1117 (struct mount mtx) 880 15969 1525 10 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_fault.c:295 (vm object) 873 6137 494 12 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c:457 (vnode interlock) 868 10460 1595 6 0 0 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/pmap.c:1851 (pmap) 867 82404 42253 1 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_lock.c:168 (lockbuilder mtxpool) 813 9197 107 85 0 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c:1380 (vm object) 809 8591 95 90 1 0 /usr/src/sys/vm/vm_map.c:1431 (vm page queue mutex) 708 1017 27 37 0 0 /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_exec.c:822 (vm object) The following is with profiling kernel, but with profiling disabled: 5 users Load 0.00 0.00 0.01 Dec 13 22:39 Mem:KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out Act 446604 5696 461972 6952 749096 count All 1262444 5696 1620985k 6952 pages zfod Interrupts Proc:r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt cow 3254 total 41 8844 1 1099 8706 11 563476 wire 1000 0: clk 16720 act 1: atkb 1.2%Sys 3.6%Intr 0.0%User 0.0%Nice 95.2%Idl 685800 inact 5 3: sio1 | | | | | | | | | | 4 cache 4: sio0 =+ 749092 free 7: ppc0 daefr stray 7 Namei Name-cache Dir-cache prcfr 128 8: rtc Calls hits % hits % react 10: ohc pdwak 2121 11: fwo pdpgs 14: ata Disks ad2 ad4 ad6 ad8 ad10 da0 cd0 intrn 15: ata KB/t 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 128 0.00 0.00 218640 buf tps 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 dirtybuf MB/s 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.30 0.00 0.00 100000 desiredvnodes % busy 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 815 numvnodes 137 freevnodes interrupt total rate irq0: clk 5401694 999 irq1: atkbd0 2 0 irq3: sio1 44965 8 irq4: sio0 407 0 irq7: ppc0 49 0 stray irq7 1 0 irq8: rtc 691295 127 irq10: ohci0 ohci1+ 253 0 irq11: fwohci0 bge* 2750114 509 irq14: ata0 57 0 irq15: ata1 431 0 Total 8889268 1645 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"