From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
cebbert@redhat.com, willy@linux.intel.com, clameter@sgi.com,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, hch@lst.de, mel@skynet.ie,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:39:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071005123953.GS5711@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73bqbd6cip.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Fri, Oct 05 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> writes:
> >
> > Writing a small test module to exercise slub/slab in various ways
> > (allocating from all cpus freeing from one, as described) should not be
> > too hard. Perhaps that would be enough to find this performance
> > discrepancy between slab and slub?
>
> You could simulate that by just sending packets using unix sockets
> between threads bound to different CPUs. Sending a packet allocates;
> receiving deallocates.
Sure, there are a host of ways to accomplish the same thing.
> But it's not clear that will really simulate the cache bounce
> environment of the database test. I don't think all passing of data
> between CPUs using slub objects is slow.
It might not, it might. The point is trying to isolate the problem and
making a simple test case that could be used to reproduce it, so that
Christoph (or someone else) can easily fix it.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-05 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 3:36 [00/17] [RFC] Virtual Compound Page Support Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [01/17] Vmalloc: Move vmalloc_to_page to mm/vmalloc Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [02/17] Vmalloc: add const Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [03/17] is_vmalloc_addr(): Check if an address is within the vmalloc boundaries Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 6:32 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 7:24 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 8:09 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 8:44 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 9:19 ` David Rientjes
2007-09-19 13:23 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 17:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 17:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [04/17] vmalloc: clean up page array indexing Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [05/17] vunmap: return page array Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 8:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-09-19 22:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-20 0:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [06/17] vmalloc_address(): Determine vmalloc address from page struct Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [07/17] GFP_VFALLBACK: Allow fallback of compound pages to virtual mappings Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [08/17] Pass vmalloc address in page->private Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [09/17] VFALLBACK: Debugging aid Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [10/17] Use GFP_VFALLBACK for sparsemem Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [11/17] GFP_VFALLBACK for zone wait table Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [12/17] Virtual Compound page allocation from interrupt context Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [13/17] Virtual compound page freeing in " Christoph Lameter
2007-09-18 20:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-20 17:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [14/17] Allow bit_waitqueue to wait on a bit in a vmalloc area Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 4:12 ` Gabriel C
2007-09-19 17:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK Christoph Lameter
2007-09-27 21:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28 5:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-01 20:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 8:43 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-04 16:16 ` SLUB performance regression vs SLAB Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 17:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 17:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-04 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 18:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-04 20:48 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 20:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 21:05 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 23:39 ` David Schwartz
2007-10-04 23:49 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-05 4:18 ` David Schwartz
2007-10-04 18:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 17:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-04 19:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-04 19:46 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-10-04 20:55 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:02 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 21:11 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:47 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-10-04 22:07 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 22:23 ` David Chinner
2007-10-05 6:48 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 9:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-10-05 9:28 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 11:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-05 12:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-10-05 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 19:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 11:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-05 12:37 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-05 19:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 20:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-05 21:31 ` David Miller
2007-10-04 21:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-05 2:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-05 2:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-09-28 17:55 ` [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28 18:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-28 18:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-28 20:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 21:14 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-28 20:59 ` Mel Gorman
2007-09-29 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 8:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29 8:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29 9:01 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 9:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29 9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 20:19 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-29 19:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 19:09 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30 4:16 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-29 9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 20:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-01 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-01 21:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 9:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-29 8:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-01 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 8:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 21:05 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-01 21:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [16/17] Allow virtual fallback for buffer_heads Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 3:36 ` [17/17] Allow virtual fallback for dentries Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 7:34 ` [00/17] [RFC] Virtual Compound Page Support Anton Altaparmakov
2007-09-19 8:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-09-19 17:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-19 8:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 17:36 ` Christoph Lameter
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