On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:25:46PM -0800, Chen, Tim C wrote:
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> Earlier I used latency_trace and figured that there was read contention
> on mm->mmap_sem during call to _rt_down_read by java threads
> when I was running volanomark.  That caused the slowdown of the rt
> kernel
> compared to non-rt kernel.  The output from lock_stat confirm
> that mm->map_sem was indeed the most heavily contended lock.

Can you sort the output ("sort -n" what ever..) and post it without the
zeroed entries ?

I'm curious about how that statistical spike compares to the rest of the
system activity. I'm sure that'll get the attention of Peter as well and
maybe he'll do something about it ? :)

bill

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