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Date:      Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:23:33 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Major SMP problems with lstat/namei
Message-ID:  <gbd4f5$ju3$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <gbd3pu$i3l$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <8185F68B-C443-4891-BEC2-5E3D453DDC93@wheelhouse.org> <gbd3pu$i3l$1@ger.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras wrote:

> There is nothing that can be done within the 6.x branch. 7.x contains
> many improvements but I think only 8.x will directly change the lockmgr=

> and the namei cache. The best things you can try right now is to use
> 7-STABLE (or soon to be released 7.1; you might need tuning with
> 7.0-RELEASE) or try 8-CURRENT (it's quite stable).

I remembered two more things:

* The problematic load can also be generated with benchmarks/blogbench
* I don't have the numbers here but I think I remember that ZFS had
noticably larger score than UFS in this workload. Of course, ZFS has
other problems.



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