public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC patch] Use IPI_shortcut for lapic timer broadcast
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:01:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090629070123.5e874497@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3877989d0906290143y3b5306f4s4a990ecbfbfc49b6@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:43:16 +0800
Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Even a Pentium-5 100 MHz dual box was able to do cross-CPU IPIs
> > within 10-20 microseconds more than a decade ago - so 50-100 usecs
> > latency on a modern platform is totally out of this planet and will
> > hurt Linux performance big time. And the worst thing about it is
> > that none of the usual performance metrics will really show _why_
> > performance is tanking ...
> >
> 
> 
> Please note this is deep-C-state related.
> C state does add extra latency.. but I don't know how much...

C states normally only add on the "wait for" side, not on the "send"
side.

(RHEL5 is rather old, so it may have done things a bit different)

Maybe it is time for mainline to not allow a !NO_HZ config....


-- 
Arjan van de Ven 	Intel Open Source Technology Centre
For development, discussion and tips for power savings, 
visit http://www.lesswatts.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-29  6:47 [RFC patch] Use IPI_shortcut for lapic timer broadcast Luming Yu
2009-06-29  7:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-29  8:04   ` Luming Yu
2009-06-29  8:16     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-29  8:21       ` Luming Yu
2009-06-29  8:30         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-29  8:43           ` Luming Yu
2009-06-29  9:15             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-29 14:01             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-06-29 20:34 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-06-30  7:01   ` Luming Yu
2009-07-03  0:23     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-07-03  2:04       ` Luming Yu

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20090629070123.5e874497@infradead.org \
    --to=arjan@infradead.org \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=luming.yu@gmail.com \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=suresh.b.siddha@intel.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox