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From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	corbet@lwn.net, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:23:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5474D71E.8070603@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416940024.26209.2.camel@linux-t7sj.site>

On 11/25/2014 11:27 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 07:45 -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote:
>> This solution has been used by both database and java on other OSs and
>> has shown performance improvement. Andrew had asked for performance
>> numbers on Linux with this patch last time I sent this out and it took
>> me a while to get performance folks to run a full TPC-C workload. They
>> did see a 3% improvement in tpcc as I noted in commit log and that is a
>> significant improvement.
>
> 3% for such a change seems pretty worthless... I would have expected
> this having to impact performance much more.
>

Performance impact will depend upon how big a bottleneck the spinlock 
was creating and how severe the resulting convoy problem was. Database 
guys try to squeeze every bit out of the system and 3% is considered to 
be very good gain. 10% gain would have been nicer :)

--
Khalid

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-24 20:56 [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice (was: Pre-emption control for userspace) Khalid Aziz
2014-11-24 22:43 ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]   ` <20141124224302.GL10824-KWJ+5VKanrL29G5dvP0v1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-24 23:20     ` Khalid Aziz
2014-11-24 23:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-25  2:12   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-25  4:20   ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]     ` <1416889208.4335.127.camel-sZ+7a5bGyC/1wTEvPJ5Q0F6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 14:50       ` [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice Khalid Aziz
2014-11-25 17:46         ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]           ` <1416937564.3512.15.camel-sZ+7a5bGyC/1wTEvPJ5Q0F6hYfS7NtTn@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 19:38             ` Khalid Aziz
2014-11-25 14:45   ` Khalid Aziz
     [not found]     ` <54749617.5030309-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 18:27       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-25 19:23         ` Khalid Aziz [this message]
     [not found]           ` <5474D71E.8070603-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 19:40             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-25  2:03 ` [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice (was: Pre-emption control for userspace) Rik van Riel
2014-11-25  6:30   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-11-25 13:38     ` Rik van Riel
2014-11-25 14:52   ` [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice Khalid Aziz
2014-11-25 15:25     ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]       ` <54749F77.50905-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 17:22         ` Khalid Aziz
2014-11-25 17:45           ` Rik van Riel
     [not found] ` <1416862595-24513-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 10:12   ` [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice (was: Pre-emption control for userspace) Srikar Dronamraju
2014-11-25 14:56     ` [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice Khalid Aziz

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