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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH RT] rwsem: The return of multi-reader PI rwsems
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:52:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1397188356.5139.33.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140410232542.23ee9920@gandalf.local.home>

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 23:25 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:50:26 +0200
> Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Oh, there was another useful bit. 
> > 
> > 3.12.17-rt25       403991     384216     377786
> >                    405466     394011     392850
> > 
> > 3.12.17-nopreempt  109049     186133     118766  !?!.. ew, TTWU_QUEUE
> >                    350385     318786     367336  !TTWU_QUEUE
> >                    326009     356939     378215  !TTWU_QUEUE
> > 
> > IPI == low-pass filter.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't have the foggiest clue to what the above means.

It means..

# Overhead                                                                                                                                                                                   Symbol
# ........  .......................................................................................................................................................................................
#
    17.33%  [k] native_write_msr_safe
            |
            |--88.45%-- __x2apic_send_IPI_mask
            |          |
            |          |--97.89%-- try_to_wake_up
            |          |          |
            |          |          |--99.91%-- wake_futex
            |          |          |          |
            |          |          |          |--99.77%-- futex_wake_op
            |          |          |          |          do_futex
            |          |          |          |          sys_futex
            |          |          |          |          system_call_fastpath

..wakeup frequency is restricted by the IPI.

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-11  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 19:19 [RFC PATCH RT] rwsem: The return of multi-reader PI rwsems Steven Rostedt
2014-04-10 14:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-10 14:28   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-10 14:32     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-11  2:50     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-11  3:25       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-11  3:52         ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2014-04-11  4:25           ` Mike Galbraith
2014-04-10 14:44 ` Clark Williams
2014-04-10 15:01   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-10 15:03   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-10 15:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 19:17       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-10 20:48         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-04-10 21:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-10 22:02           ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-10 15:38     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-11 21:39   ` Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2014-04-10 17:42 ` [RFC PATCH RT V2] " Steven Rostedt
2014-04-11  2:35   ` [RFC PATCH RT V3] " Steven Rostedt
2014-04-11 12:47     ` Carsten Emde
2014-04-11 13:25       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-17 23:26         ` [RFC PATCH RT V4] " Steven Rostedt
2014-04-18  8:19           ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-24 17:52             ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-14  9:55 ` [RFC PATCH RT] " Ingo Molnar
2014-04-14 13:34   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-14 14:08     ` Peter Zijlstra

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