On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 07:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If you compare an strace of AIM7 steady state and 'perf bench 
> lock' steady state, is it comparable, i.e. do the syscalls and 
> other behavioral patterns match up?

With more than 1000 users I'm seeing:

-  33.74%    locking-creat  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k] mspin_lock       
                                                                                
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   + mspin_lock                                                                 
                                                                                
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   + __mutex_lock_slowpath                                                      
                                                                                
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   + mutex_lock                                                                 
                                                                                
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-   7.97%    locking-creat  [kernel.kallsyms]              [k] 
mutex_spin_on_owner                                                             
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   + mutex_spin_on_owner                                                        
                                                                                
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   + __mutex_lock_slowpath                                                      
                                                                                
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   + mutex_lock                                                                 
                                    

Lower users count just shows the syscall entries.

Of course, the aim7 setup was running on a ramdisk, thus avoiding any IO
overhead in the traces.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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