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Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:03:27 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-user@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186710 - user/kmacy/HEAD_fast_net/sys/kern
Message-ID:  <200901151003.27545.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901030200.n0320Arr013245@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200901030200.n0320Arr013245@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 02 January 2009 9:00:10 pm Kip Macy wrote:
> Author: kmacy
> Date: Sat Jan  3 02:00:10 2009
> New Revision: 186710
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186710
>
> Log:
>   convert name cache lock to rwlock for lookups

I think you need to restart the lookup if you fail an upgrade.  I've had a 
patch to do that for years (literally) but it didn't help performance in 
earlier tests by kris@.  You can find one that does the restarts at 
www.freebsd.org/~jhb/namei_rwlock.patch.

-- 
John Baldwin



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