root@fledgling:~ # lockstat dd if=/dev/zero of=/testfile bs=1M count=44 44+0 records in 44+0 records out 46137344 bytes transferred in 0.062202 secs (741737312 bytes/sec) R/W writer spin on writer: 984 events in 0.094 seconds (10451 events/sec) Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Lock Caller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 228 23% 23% 0.00 3023 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock 0xc00000000308837c 188 19% 42% 0.00 3219 vm object bufdone+0x45c 132 13% 56% 0.00 2189 vm object bdwrite+0x2f4 123 12% 68% 0.00 2394 bufobj interlock bufobj_wdrop+0x13c 108 11% 79% 0.00 2093 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock 0xc00000000308e270 53 5% 85% 0.00 1136 bufobj interlock bqrelse+0x2a0 45 5% 89% 0.00 2608 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock (usermode) 32 3% 92% 0.00 3348 bufobj interlock (usermode) 19 2% 94% 0.00 3143 bufobj interlock getblkx+0x6a4 13 1% 96% 0.00 1559 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock 0xc000000003090bdc 10 1% 97% 0.00 361 vm object allocbuf+0xa84 10 1% 98% 0.00 1368 vm object (usermode) 10 1% 99% 0.00 1158 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock softdep_setup_blkmapdep+0x294 8 1% 99% 0.00 822 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock 0xc00000000308ef48 3 0% 100% 0.00 1022 bufobj interlock reassignbuf+0x350 1 0% 100% 0.00 471 vm object vnode_pager_setsize+0x2bc 1 0% 100% 0.00 317 Per-Filesystem Softdep Lock softdep_prealloc+0x460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R/W writer spin on readers: 27 events in 0.094 seconds (287 events/sec) Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Lock Caller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 93% 93% 0.00 1717 bufobj interlock bufobj_wdrop+0x13c 2 7% 100% 0.00 3396 bufobj interlock (usermode) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R/W reader spin on writer: 16 events in 0.094 seconds (170 events/sec) Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Lock Caller ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 100% 100% 0.00 2167 bufobj interlock __rw_rlock_int+0x9c -------------------------------------------------------------------------------