Re: ipc,sem: sysv semaphore scalability

From: Emmanuel Benisty
Date: Mon Mar 25 2013 - 09:47:50 EST


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And you never see this problem without Rik's patches?

No, never.

> Could you bisect
> *which* patch it starts with? Are the first four ones ok (the moving
> of the locking around, but without the fine-grained ones), for
> example?

With the first four patches only, I got some X server freeze (just tried once).

> Another thing to try might be to enable SLUB debugging (ie make sure that all of
>
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_SLUB=y
> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y
>
> are set in your kernel config)

My bad, I forgot to enable this in my former build, sorry. Here's what
I get now:
http://i.imgur.com/G6H8KgD.jpg
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