Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking: qspinlock

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 12 2014 - 12:19:47 EST


On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:57:54 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> I build and booted these patches against tip/master as of this morning.
> It build ~50 defconfig kernels on my WSM-EP.
>
> I've not managed to reproduce the hang as reported by Dave, but then I
> doubt building kernels has anywhere near the lock contention he
> generated.
>

Have you tried hackbench? That usually gives rq spinlocks a bit of
contention.

-- Steve
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