* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So the overhead you are currently seeing should just be that of > > iterating through the list, locking said requests and adding them to > > our private list. > > ah - cool! This was a 100 MB writeout so having 3.7 msecs to process > 20K+ pages is not unreasonable. To break the latency, can i just do a > simple lock-break, via the patch below?
with this patch the worst-case latency during NFS writeout is down to 40 usecs (!). Lee: i've uploaded the -42-05 release with this patch included - could you test it on your (no doubt more complex than mine) NFS setup? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/