I'm having trouble making sense of the output generated by LOCK_PROFILING -- in particular, the cnt_hold and cnt_lock stats. The man page says: cnt_hold The number of times the lock was held and another thread attempted to acquire the lock. cnt_lock The number of times the lock was already held when this point was reached. When I enable lock profiling for 30 seconds during heavy network activity and then look at all of the lines for the sched lock, I see a lot of non-zero values in the cnt_hold column (including several over 100000 and one over 500000). But all of the values in the cnt_lock column are 0. How can that be? It seems to me that for a given lock, the two columns should sum to the same number -- except maybe for recursive acquisitions, which might increase the cnt_lock numbers without increasing the cnt_hold numbers. (The descriptions don't say what happens with recursive acquisitions.) What am I missing? JohnReceived on Mon Dec 04 2006 - 21:58:51 UTC
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