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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/18] sched: Reduce runqueue lock contention -v4
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:16:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110104151656.GA339@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110104145929.772813816@chello.nl>


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> Latest version of the scary patches...

Just to make it easier for others to see the rationale behind this series, see the 
numbers and limitations listed below.

	Ingo

------------------------->
As measured using: http://oss.oracle.com/~mason/sembench.c

$ echo 4096 32000 64 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/sem
$ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0

unpatched: run time 30 seconds 639476 worker burns per second
patched:   run time 30 seconds 847526 worker burns per second

Still need to sort out all the races marked XXX (non-trivial), and its
x86 only for the moment.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-04 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-04 14:59 [RFC][PATCH 00/18] sched: Reduce runqueue lock contention -v4 Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 01/18] sched: Always provide p->on_cpu Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 02/18] mutex: Use p->on_cpu for the adaptive spin Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 03/18] sched: Change the ttwu success details Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 04/18] sched: Clean up ttwu stats Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 05/18] sched: Provide p->on_rq Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05  8:13   ` Yong Zhang
2011-01-05  9:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-29  0:10   ` Frank Rowand
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/18] sched: Serialize p->cpus_allowed and ttwu() using p->pi_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/18] sched: Drop the rq argument to sched_class::select_task_rq() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-06 13:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-06 14:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/18] sched: Remove rq argument to sched_class::task_waking() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/18] sched: Delay task_contributes_to_load() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/18] sched: Also serialize ttwu_local() with p->pi_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/18] sched: Add p->pi_lock to task_rq_lock() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 18:46   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-05 19:33     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-29  0:21   ` Frank Rowand
2011-02-03 17:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-03 17:49       ` Frank Rowand
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/18] sched: Drop rq->lock from first part of wake_up_new_task() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/18] sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 14/18] sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-06 16:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-29  1:05   ` Frank Rowand
2011-02-03 17:16     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 15/18] sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 16/18] sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-29  1:08   ` Frank Rowand
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 17/18] sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 21:07   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-06 15:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-07 15:22       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-18 16:38         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-19 19:37           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-29  0:04           ` Frank Rowand
2011-02-03 17:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 14:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 18/18] sched: Sort hotplug vs ttwu queueing Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-05 20:47   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-01-06 10:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-04 15:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-01-29  1:20 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/18] sched: Reduce runqueue lock contention -v4 Frank Rowand

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