Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:47:24 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.36 io bring the system to its knees |
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:30:36PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Looks mostly VFS to me. Aidar, does killing Picasa make things smoother for you? > > If so, maybe the VFS scalability patches will help. > > Hm, but the VFS scalability patches mostly decrease CPU usage, and does that mostly > on many-core systems.
If you have i_mutex contention they are not going to change anything.
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