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From: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: tbench regression with 2.6.32-rc1
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:51:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255081889.25078.42.camel@ymzhang> (raw)

Comparing with 2.6.31's results, tebench has some regression with
2.6.32-rc1.
COmmandline to start tbench:
#./tbench_srv &
#./tbench -t 600 CPU_NUM*2 127.0.0.1  #Use real cpu num to replace CPU_NUM
So start 2 client processes per cpu.

1) On 4*4 core tigerton: 30%;
2) On 2*4 core stoakley: 15%;
3) On 2*8 core Nehalem: 6%.

As there are couple of patches which try to turn on/off some sched domain
flags such like SD_BALANCE_WAKE, I used some walkaround to bisect it.
On tigerton, below patch is captured. 
commit 59abf02644c45f1591e1374ee7bb45dc757fcb88
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 08:28:30 2009 +0200

    sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL


The patch reverting is not clean, so I did some testing by turning on/off
some domain flags and sched_feaures manually.

1) On tigerton: if SD_PREFER_LOCAL=0 (disable it), the regression becomes about 2%.
2) On stoakley: if SD_PREFER_LOCAL=0 (disable it), the regression becomes about 4%.
3) On Nehalem: Above method couldn't improve result. I'm still checking it.

I also tried to turn on/off FAIR_SLEEPERS and GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS. It seems they
has limited impact on tbench. I need double check these 2 flags.



             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-09  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-09  9:51 Zhang, Yanmin [this message]
2009-10-09 10:16 ` tbench regression with 2.6.32-rc1 Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-12  5:20   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-10-14 13:13   ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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