From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: pipe/sockets/anon dentries should not have a parent Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20081121152148.GA20388@elte.hu> References: <20081121083044.GL16242@elte.hu> <49267694.1030506@cosmosbay.com> <20081121.010508.40225532.davem@davemloft.net> <4926AEDB.10007@cosmosbay.com> <4926D022.5060008@cosmosbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4926D022.5060008-fPLkHRcR87vqlBn2x/YWAg@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eric Dumazet Cc: David Miller , cl-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, efault-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org, a.p.zijlstra-/NLkJaSkS4VmR6Xm/wNWPw@public.gmane.org, Linux Netdev List * Eric Dumazet wrote: > Before patch, time to run 8 millions of close(socket()) calls on 8 > CPUS was : > > real 0m27.496s > user 0m0.657s > sys 3m39.092s > > After patch : > > real 0m23.997s > user 0m0.682s > sys 3m11.193s cool :-) What would it take to get it down to: >> Cost if run one one cpu : >> >> real 0m1.561s >> user 0m0.092s >> sys 0m1.469s i guess asking for a wall-clock cost of 1.561/8 would be too much? :) Ingo