Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] kernfs: use kernfs_node specific mutex and spinlock.

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 11:01:55PM +1100, Imran Khan wrote:
> Could you please suggest me some current users of hashed locks ? I can
> check that code and modify my patches accordingly.

include/linux/blockgroup_lock.h seems to be one.

> As of now I have not found any standard benchmarks/workloads to show the
> impact of this contention. We have some in house DB applications where
> the impact can be easily seen.  Of course those applications can be
> modified to get the needed data from somewhere else or access sysfs less
> frequently but nonetheless I am trying to make the current locking
> scheme more scalable.

I don't think it needs to show up in one of the common benchmarks but what
the application does should make some sense. Which files are involved in the
contentions?

Thanks.

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tejun