Re: RCU latency regression in 2.6.16-rc1

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 02:56:28 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 08:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I ported the latency tracer to 2.6.16 and got this 13ms latency within
> > a few hours. This is a regression from 2.6.15.
> >
> > It appears that RCU can invoke ipv4_dst_destroy thousands of times in
> > a single batch.
>
> could you try the PREEMPT_RCU patch below?
>


Sure. If it works do you see this making it in 2.6.16? Otherwise we
still would have a regression...

Lee


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