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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: tbench regression with 2.6.33-rc1
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:08:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263211680.4244.50.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261739467.10685.18.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>

On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 19:11 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Test machine: 16 cpus (4P/2Core/HT), 8G mem
> tbench test command:
> tbench_srv &
> tbench 32
> 
> Compared with 2.6.32, tbench has ~4% regression in 2.6.33-rc1.
> 
> >From vmstat data, the context switch number also drop ~4%.
> perf top data does not show much differences.
> 
> But lockstat data shows huge difference in rq->lock, as below.
> See the attachment for the full lockstat data.
> 
> Any clue of this regression?

Nope, I thought to see the same on a dual-socket machine, but when
bisecting I ended up on a user-space perf commit, which is pretty much
impossible.

I did notice some variance in the numbers between boots, maybe it was
large enough to fool me.. (~2800 MB/s was the good one, ~2200 MB/s was
the bad one).

perf itself also didn't really provide clue, perf record -ag on the
workload didn't really show anything scheduler related. vmstat 1 did
show a proportional drop in context switch rate between the kernels
though.. most odd.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-25 11:11 tbench regression with 2.6.33-rc1 Lin Ming
2009-12-27  8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-27  8:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-27  9:41     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-27 10:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-02  3:56         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-29  2:09   ` Lin Ming
2009-12-29  5:24     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-12-29  5:19       ` Lin Ming
2009-12-29  5:49         ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-06  6:01           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-06  5:55             ` Lin Ming
2010-01-06  6:52               ` Lin Ming
2010-01-06  7:44                 ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-11 12:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-01-11 16:16   ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  1:09     ` Lin Ming
2010-01-12  2:33       ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  3:13         ` Lin Ming
2010-01-12  4:14           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-01-12  8:54       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-12  9:20         ` Lin Ming

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