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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: lkp@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [futex] 76835b0ebf8: -8.1% will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:58:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226095812.GA32538@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424927813.10337.19.camel@intel.com>

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 05:16:53AM +0000, Huang Ying wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 76835b0ebf8a7fe85beb03c75121419a7dec52f0 ("futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier")
> 
> 
> testbox/testcase/testparams: lkp-wsx01/will-it-scale/performance-futex4
> 
> 0429fbc0bdc297d6  76835b0ebf8a7fe85beb03c751
> ----------------  --------------------------
>          %stddev     %change         %stddev
>              \          |                \
>    6314259 ±  0%      -8.1%    5800079 ±  0%  will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
>    6274871 ±  0%      -8.1%    5768747 ±  0%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops

This was raised before but I'm not sure we can do much about it:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/26/189

It would be interesting to know the difference in performance with the
code prior to commits b0c29f79ecea and 11d4616bd07f which optimised the
futex code but missed a barrier.

-- 
Catalin

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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, LKP ML <lkp@01.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [futex] 76835b0ebf8: -8.1% will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:58:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150226095812.GA32538@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424927813.10337.19.camel@intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 05:16:53AM +0000, Huang Ying wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 76835b0ebf8a7fe85beb03c75121419a7dec52f0 ("futex: Ensure get_futex_key_refs() always implies a barrier")
> 
> 
> testbox/testcase/testparams: lkp-wsx01/will-it-scale/performance-futex4
> 
> 0429fbc0bdc297d6  76835b0ebf8a7fe85beb03c751
> ----------------  --------------------------
>          %stddev     %change         %stddev
>              \          |                \
>    6314259 ±  0%      -8.1%    5800079 ±  0%  will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
>    6274871 ±  0%      -8.1%    5768747 ±  0%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops

This was raised before but I'm not sure we can do much about it:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/26/189

It would be interesting to know the difference in performance with the
code prior to commits b0c29f79ecea and 11d4616bd07f which optimised the
futex code but missed a barrier.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-26  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-26  5:16 [futex] 76835b0ebf8: -8.1% will-it-scale.per_thread_ops Huang Ying
2015-02-26  5:16 ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-26  9:58 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2015-02-26  9:58   ` Catalin Marinas
2015-02-27  3:28   ` Huang Ying
2015-02-27  3:28     ` [LKP] " Huang Ying

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