Re: 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to 3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected

Mike Galbraith
2012-09-27T05:44:32Z

On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 07:18 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 07:09:28AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> but how does that affect pgbench and ilk that must spread regardless
> > of footprints.
>
> Well, how do you measure latency of the 1 process in the 1:N case? Maybe
> pipeline stalls of the 1 along with some way to recognize it is the 1 in
> the 1:N case.

Best is to let userland tell us it's critical. Smarts are expensive. A
class of it's own (my wakees do _not_ preempt me, and I don't care that
you think this is unfair to the unwashed masses who will otherwise
_starve_ without me feeding them) makes sense for these guys.

-Mike