On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 16:12 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch enables the accumulation of kicking and waiting related
> PV qspinlock statistics when the new QUEUED_LOCK_STAT configuration
> option is selected. It also enables the collection of kicking and
> wakeup latencies which have a heavy dependency on the CPUs being used.
> 
> The measured latencies for different CPUs are:
> 
>       CPU             Wakeup          Kicking
>       ---             ------          -------
>       Haswell-EX      89.8us           7.4us
>       Westmere-EX     67.6us           9.3us
> 

But you don't mention anything about the overhead of enabling
QUEUED_LOCK_STAT. This does several atomic ops, thus potentially
thrashing workloads.

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