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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348769391.3292.41.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1209271039500.8808@asgard.lang.hm>

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 10:45 -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> But I thought that this conversation (pgbench) was dealing with long 
> running processes, 

Ah, I think we've got a confusion on long vs short.. yes pgbench is a
long-running process, however the tasks might not be long in runnable
state. Ie it receives a request, computes a bit, blocks on IO, computes
a bit, replies, goes idle to wait for a new request.

If all those runnable sections are short enough, it will 'never' be
around when the periodic load-balancer does its thing, since that only
looks at the tasks in runnable state at that moment in time.

I say 'never' because while it will occasionally show up due to pure
chance, it will unlikely be a very big player in placement.

Once a cpu is overloaded enough to get real queueing they'll show up,
get dispersed and then its back to wakeup stuff.

Then again, it might be completely irrelevant to pgbench, its been a
while since I looked at how it schedules.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  7:47 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets Nikolay Ulyanitsky
2012-09-14 18:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-14 18:51   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-14 21:27 ` 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected Borislav Petkov
2012-09-14 21:40   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 21:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-14 21:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 21:59         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-15  3:57           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-14 22:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-14 22:10           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14 22:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-14 22:14           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-14 21:45     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-14 21:42   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-15  3:33     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 16:16       ` Andi Kleen
2012-09-15 16:36         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 17:08           ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-09-16  4:48             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 21:32           ` Alan Cox
2012-09-16  4:35             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-16 19:57               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-17  8:08                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-17 10:07                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-17 10:47                     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-17 14:39                     ` Andi Kleen
2012-09-19 12:35               ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-19 14:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-19 15:23                   ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-24 15:00     ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-24 15:23       ` Nikolay Ulyanitsky
2012-09-24 15:53         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-24 15:30       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 15:51         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-24 15:52         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-24 16:07           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 16:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-24 16:54               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-25 12:10                 ` Hillf Danton
2012-09-24 16:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 16:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-24 16:52               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-24 16:54               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 17:44                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-25 13:23                   ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-25 14:36                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-24 18:26                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-24 19:12                   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-24 19:20                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-25  1:57                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-25  2:11                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-25  2:49                           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-25  3:10                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-25  3:20                               ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-25  3:32                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-25  3:43                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-25 11:58                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-25 13:17                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-25 17:00                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-25 17:21                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-25 18:42                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-25 19:08                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-26  2:23                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-26 17:17                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-26  2:00                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-26  2:22                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-26  2:42                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-26 17:15                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-26 16:32                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-26 18:19                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-26 21:37                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27  5:09                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27  5:18                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27  5:44                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27  5:47                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-27  5:59                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-27  6:34                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27  6:41                                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-27  6:54                                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27  7:10                                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-09-27 16:25                                                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27 17:44                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-27 18:05                                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27 18:19                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-27 18:29                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-27 19:24                                                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-28  3:50                                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-28 12:30                                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27 19:40                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-28  4:13                                                               ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-28  8:37                                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-27  7:17                                         ` david
2012-09-27  7:55                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27 10:20                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-27 13:38                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27 16:55                                             ` david
2012-09-27  4:32                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27  8:21                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-27 16:48                                         ` david
2012-09-27 17:38                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-27 17:45                                             ` david
2012-09-27 18:09                                               ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-27 18:15                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-09-27 18:24                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-25  1:39                     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-25 21:11                     ` Suresh Siddha
2012-09-25  4:16       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15  4:11   ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]     ` <CA+55aFz1A7HbMYS9o-GTS5Zm=Xx8MUD7cR05GMVo--2E34jcgQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-15  4:42       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 10:44     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-15 14:47       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 15:18         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-09-15 16:13           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-15 19:44             ` Borislav Petkov

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