On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:16 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:And although not as common, NNTP servers using file per article storage.On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:btw., i think spin-mutexes have a design advantage here: in a lot of code areas it's quite difficult to use spinlocks - cannot allocate memory, cannot call any code that can sporadically block (but does not _normally_ block), etc.Umm. Except if you wrote the code nicely and used spinlocks, you wouldn't hold the lock over all those unnecessary and complex operations.
With mutexes those atomicity constraints go away - and the performance profile should now be quite close to that of spinlocks as well.
While this is true, there are examples of places we should expect
speedups for this today.
Concurrent file creation/deletion in a single dir will often find things
hot in cache and not have to block anywhere (mail spools).
Concurrent O_DIRECT aio writes to the same file, where i_mutex isI'd like to see that. Didn't realize how slow pipes really are.
dropped early on.
pipes should see a huge improvement.
I'll kick off some runs of my three benchmarks on ext3 for comparison.
If there are things less synthetic people would like to see, please let
me know.
-chris
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