Re: [bisected] pre-3.16 regression on open() scalability

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jun 20 2014 - 11:20:43 EST


On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> I am putting together patches based on Eric Dumazet's suggestion and on a
> variant of the above approach. However, I do expect the distros to starve
> to death between those two bales of hay. But perhaps the actual patches
> will inspire a bit of light to go with this thread's heat and smoke.

Yep. Note that the large systems are only a few and the smaller systems
are many. You are penalizing the overwhelming majority for support of a
few systems.

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