> after updating one of our servers to 3.0.12 kernel, it became painfully slow (actually
> it's almost unusable).
> 
> trying perf top, I see following:
> 
>             27465.00 - 59.8% : unregister_pernet_gen_subsys
>              3144.00 -  6.8% : __start_notes
>              1211.00 -  2.6% : swiotlb_sync_sg
>              1155.00 -  2.5% : swiotlb_unmap_sg_attrs
>               621.00 -  1.4% : pci_pm_init
>               565.00 -  1.2% : swiotlb_map_sg_attrs
>               503.00 -  1.1% : cgroup_attach_task

crap, I was using too old perf binary - that might be reason why I wasn't able
to find any evidence of unregister_pernet_gen_subsys for 3.x kernels :)
I switched to 3.0.13 now (and actual perf) and it seems better..
Should the problem reappear, I'll report it..
sorry for the fuzz..
n.


> 
> I wasn't too successfull trying to find something related, so I'd like to ask,
> which subsystem might be calling unregister_pernet_gen_subsys and why?
> I guess this is certaingly a bug... Could somebody please have a look at this?
> I'll provide all debugging information I can if needed..
> 
> thanks a lot in advance
> 
> with best regards
> 
> nik
> 
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