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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysbench+mysql(oltp, readonly) 30% regression with 2.6.26-rc1
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 11:37:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210239454.7036.2.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508084607.GA31515@elte.hu>


On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Could you perhaps try the hack below that uses /proc/sys/kernel/panic as 
> a flag whether the BKL should cause us to block or should be spun upon.
> 
> Can you confirm that with that patch too sysbench shows sensitivity to 
> the value of the panic flag? [this is the surest way to measure such 
> effects as flipping the sysctl only minimally impacts the system.]

Difference for average of 3 runs at 128 clients is 0.3% with this
patch.. iow, nope.

	-Mike


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08  9:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07  4:55 sysbench+mysql(oltp, readonly) 30% regression with 2.6.26-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07  9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07  9:33   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 10:40     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 16:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-08  6:35   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  8:00     ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-08  8:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08  9:25         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 10:00           ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-08  9:37         ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2008-05-08  9:01       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  9:13         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-08  9:15         ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-08  9:22           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  9:23           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09  1:16             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-09  6:51               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09  7:32                 ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-09  7:50                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09  7:58                     ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-09  8:02                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09  8:23                         ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-09  9:47                           ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-09  7:59                     ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-09  8:10                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09  8:25                         ` Mike Galbraith

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