From: David Chinner Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:13:09 +0000 (+1100) Subject: [XFS] On machines with more than 8 cpus, when running parallel I/O X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~1000^2~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d280b98cfe3c0b69c37d355218975c1c0279bb0;p=pandora-kernel.git [XFS] On machines with more than 8 cpus, when running parallel I/O threads, the incore superblock lock becomes the limiting factor for buffered write throughput. Make the contended fields in the incore superblock use per-cpu counters so that there is no global lock to limit scalability. SGI-PV: 946630 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25106a Signed-off-by: David Chinner Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott --- Reading git-diff-tree failed