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Allocations and frees are globally serialized on the pcpu lock (and the CPU hotplug lock if enabled, which is the case on Debian). At least one frequent consumer allocates 4 back-to-back counters (and frees them in the same manner), exacerbating the problem. While this does not fully remedy scalability issues, it is a step towards that goal and provides immediate relief. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230823050609.2228718-2-mjguzik@gmail.com [Dennis: reflowed a few lines] Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.