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

[Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 01:42:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 03:31:56PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 
> > > That is a separate issue, but unnecessary calls to cond_resched()
> > > should of course be removed -- no argument there.
> > 
> > It looks like we are fighting higher latencies by adding calls in most of
> > the critical sections which will in turn increase the latencies that we
> > are trying to reduce.
> 
> That is on battle in a larger war.  Another battle is to keep big systems
> from choking and dying.  We need to win both battles, though I understand

If we really need cond_resched() now to stop systems from dying
we did a really poor job at designing Linux. I hope it's not true,
that would be really bad and point to some severe design problems
elsewhere.

-Andi