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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:31:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060110173159.55cce659.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C45BDC.1050402@google.com>

Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I fixed the graphs so you can actually read them now ;-)

They're cute.

> http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b6.png (x86_64 4x)
> http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.moe.png (NUMA-Q)
> http://test.kernel.org/perf/kernbench.elm3b132.png (4x SMP ia32)
> 
> Both seems significantly slower on -mm (mm is green line)

Well, 1% slower.  -mm has permanent not-for-linus debug things, some of
which are expected to have a performance impact.  I don't know whether
they'd have a 1% impact though.

> If I look at diffprofile between 2.6.15 and 2.6.15-mm1, it just looks
> like we have lots more idle time.

Yes, we do.   It'd be useful to test -git7..

> You got strange scheduler changes in
> there, that you've been carrying for a long time (2.6.14-mm1 at least)? 
> or HZ piddling? See to be mainly getting much more idle time.

Yes, there are CPU scheduler changes, although much fewer than usual. 
Ingo, any suggestions as to a culprit?


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-11  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-11  1:14 -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench Martin Bligh
2006-01-11  1:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-01-11  1:41   ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-11  1:48     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11  1:49     ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-11  2:38       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11  3:07         ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-11  3:12           ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-11  3:40           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11  3:49             ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-11  4:33               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11  5:14             ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11  6:21               ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-11 12:24                 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11 14:29                   ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-11 22:05                     ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12  0:54                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12  1:18                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-12  1:29                           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12  1:36                             ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-12  2:23                               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12  2:26                                 ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-12  6:39                                   ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-23 19:28                                     ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-24  1:25                                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-24  3:50                                         ` Peter Williams
2006-01-24  4:41                                           ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-24  6:22                                             ` Peter Williams
2006-01-24  6:42                                               ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-28 23:20                                                 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-29  0:52                                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-12  2:27                                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-12  2:04                           ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-12  6:35                             ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-12  6:41                               ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-12  6:54                                 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12 18:39                         ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-12 20:03                           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-12 22:20                             ` Peter Williams
2006-01-13  7:06                               ` Peter Williams
2006-01-13 12:00                                 ` Peter Williams
2006-01-13 16:15                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-13 16:26                                 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-01-13 17:54                                   ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-01-13 20:41                                     ` Martin Bligh
2006-01-14  0:23                                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-14  5:03                                         ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14  5:40                                           ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-14  6:05                                             ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-14  5:53                                           ` Peter Williams
2006-01-14  6:13                                             ` Nick Piggin
2006-01-13 22:59                                     ` Peter Williams
2006-01-14 18:48                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-01-15  0:05                                   ` Peter Williams
2006-01-15  2:04                                     ` Con Kolivas
2006-01-15  2:09                                     ` [PATCH] sched - remove unnecessary smpnice ifdefs Con Kolivas
2006-01-15  3:50                                     ` -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench Ingo Molnar
2006-01-12  1:25                       ` Peter Williams
2006-01-11  1:52     ` Andrew Morton

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