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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	"Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
	chinang.ma@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sharad.c.tripathi@intel.com, arjan@linux.intel.com,
	andi.kleen@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	harita.chilukuri@intel.com, douglas.w.styner@intel.com,
	peter.xihong.wang@intel.com, hubert.nueckel@intel.com,
	chris.mason@oracle.com, srostedt@redhat.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:12:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1232028766.5966.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114180431.f4a96543.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:21:47 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:35:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > Linux OLTP Performance summary
> > > > > Kernel#            Speedup(x)   Intr/s  CtxSw/s us%  sys%   idle%  iowait%
> > > > > 2.6.24.2                1.000   21969   43425   76   24     0      0
> > > > > 2.6.27.2                0.973   30402   43523   74   25     0      1
> > > > > 2.6.29-rc1              0.965   30331   41970   74   26     0      0
> > 
> > > But the interrupt rate went through the roof.
> > 
> > Yes.  I forget why that was; I'll have to dig through my archives for
> > that.
> 
> Oh.  I'd have thought that this alone could account for 3.5%.

Me too.  Anecdotally, I haven't noticed this in my lab machines, but
what I have noticed is on someone else's laptop (a hyperthreaded atom)
that I was trying to demo powertop on was that IPI reschedule interrupts
seem to be out of control ... they were ticking over at a really high
rate and preventing the CPU from spending much time in the low C and P
states.  To me this implicates some scheduler problem since that's the
primary producer of IPI reschedules ... I think it wouldn't be a
significant extrapolation to predict that the scheduler might be the
cause of the above problem as well.

James

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-15 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BC02C49EEB98354DBA7F5DD76F2A9E800317003CB0@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
     [not found] ` <CAC4B8726E86A142B27A9E9A2F2F12479D3E945F@rrsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-15  0:35   ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  1:21     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  2:04       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  2:27         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15  7:11           ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-19 18:04             ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 18:37               ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]               ` <1232390259.25783.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2009-01-19 18:55                 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 19:07                   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 23:40                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15  2:39         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-15  2:47           ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  3:36             ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 13:27             ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]               ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A497632C@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-22 11:29                 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]                   ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A4F59632@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-27  8:28                     ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-15  7:24         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15  9:46           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-15 13:52             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 14:42               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:16               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:21                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:31                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:42                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:55                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  7:13                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:05                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:33                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:42                               ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:47                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:57                                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  9:48                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 10:03                                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 20:59                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16  0:27           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  4:03             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  4:12               ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  6:46                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  6:55                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16  7:06                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  7:53                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20  5:16                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22  8:36                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:15                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22  9:28                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:47                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  3:02                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  6:52                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:06                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:30                                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:40                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  9:46                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31                                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01                                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24  2:55                                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24  7:36                                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12  5:22                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12  5:47                                                       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07                                                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03                                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01  2:52                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:33                                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23  9:02                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23 18:40                                           ` care and feeding of netperf (Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update) Rick Jones
2009-01-23 18:51                                             ` Grant Grundler
2009-01-24  3:03                                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-26 18:26                                               ` Rick Jones
2009-01-16  7:00                   ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  7:25                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  8:59                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11                   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19  7:43                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19                       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-15 14:12         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2009-01-15 17:44           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 18:00             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 18:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15 18:44                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 18:46                   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15 19:44                     ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-16 18:14                       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-16 19:09                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-20 12:45                         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 19:28                 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-15 16:48       ` Ma, Chinang
     [not found] <D7C42C27E6CB1E4D8CBDF2F81EA92A260345836A3A@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-04-27  7:02 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-28 16:57   ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-04-28 17:15     ` James Bottomley
2009-04-28 17:17       ` Styner, Douglas W

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