From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757278AbYIDIvT (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:51:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752415AbYIDIvI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:51:08 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:31312 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752336AbYIDIvG (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:51:06 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,320,1217833200"; d="scan'208";a="612632054" Subject: oltp ~10% regression with 2.6.27-rc5 on stoakley machine From: Lin Ming To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: linux-kernel , "Zhang, Yanmin" , mingo Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:51:06 +0800 Message-Id: <1220518266.9590.22.camel@minggr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 (2.12.1-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Comparing with 2.6.27-rc4, oltp has ~10% regression with 2.6.27-rc5 on 8-core stoakley machine. Run oltp with 8 threads 120 seconds, vmstat shows much more idle time, about ~30% procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 10 0 0 7822824 42240 123740 0 0 312 47 442 1613 3 2 88 6 0 9 0 0 7822312 42240 123764 0 0 0 16 26691 232566 56 14 30 0 0 13 0 0 7821940 42240 123764 0 0 0 16 26661 228689 54 14 32 0 0 8 0 0 7821320 42240 123764 0 0 0 16 31508 263765 61 17 23 0 0 12 0 0 7820948 42240 123764 0 0 16 16 28666 242402 57 15 28 0 0 9 0 0 7820584 42240 123780 0 0 0 16 27107 230804 56 14 30 0 0 10 0 0 7819964 42240 123796 0 0 16 612 27599 244037 55 16 29 0 0 11 0 0 7819356 42240 123796 0 0 0 64 23540 209713 51 13 36 0 0 10 0 0 7819212 42240 123796 0 0 0 32 25674 224205 54 13 32 0 0 10 0 0 7818716 42240 123796 0 0 0 20 30106 257161 59 16 25 0 0 7 0 0 7818468 42240 123796 0 0 0 16 28356 241551 57 14 29 0 0 10 0 0 7818096 42240 123796 0 0 0 16 39174 273656 64 16 20 0 0 12 0 0 7817724 42240 123796 0 0 0 20 39688 276936 63 16 20 0 0 11 0 0 7817352 42240 123796 0 0 0 16 42543 285192 66 16 18 0 0 9 0 0 7817352 42240 123796 0 0 0 16 37083 259830 62 14 24 0 0 8 0 0 7817104 42240 123796 0 0 0 16 37450 259160 61 15 23 0 0 10 0 0 7816516 42240 123796 0 0 0 64 37425 261870 61 16 23 0 0 11 0 0 7815896 42240 123812 0 0 16 16 41558 279320 66 16 18 0 0 9 0 0 7815648 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 34017 235741 59 14 28 0 0 10 0 0 7815152 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 35642 248888 60 14 26 0 0 9 0 0 7814532 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 38517 263220 63 15 22 0 0 9 0 0 7814160 42240 123812 0 0 0 20 35965 246487 61 14 25 0 0 10 0 0 7814036 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 33852 236313 59 13 28 0 0 11 0 0 7813664 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 34958 244819 59 14 27 0 0 10 0 0 7813416 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 26106 202062 53 10 37 0 0 10 0 0 7812672 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 31174 222714 56 12 32 0 0 9 0 0 7812300 42240 123812 0 0 0 276 25089 196813 52 11 38 0 0 9 0 0 7812060 42240 123812 0 0 0 16 31877 228004 57 12 31 0 0 Bisect located below patch, after reverted this patch the regression disappear. commit 354879bb977e06695993435745f06a0f6d39ce2b Author: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon Aug 25 17:15:34 2008 +0200 sched_clock: fix cpu_clock() This patch fixes 3 issues: a) it removes the dependency on jiffies, because jiffies are incremented by a single CPU, and the tick is not synchronized between CPUs. Therefore relying on it to calculate a window to clip whacky TSC values doesn't work as it can drift around. So instead use [GTOD, GTOD+TICK_NSEC) as the window. b) __update_sched_clock() did (roughly speaking): delta = sched_clock() - scd->tick_raw; clock += delta; Which gives exponential growth, instead of linear. c) allows the sched_clock_cpu() value to warp the u64 without breaking. the results are more reliable sched_clock() deltas: -Lin Ming