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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aquini@redhat.com,
	walken@google.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, lwoodman@redhat.com,
	jeremy@goop.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	knoel@redhat.com, chegu_vinod@hp.com,
	raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:28:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124132841.GB5302@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357846213.5755.30.camel@marge.simpson.net>


* Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:31 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: 
> > On 01/10/2013 10:19 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 17:26 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > >
> > >> Please let me know if you manage to break this code in any way,
> > >> so I can fix it...
> > >
> > > I didn't break it, but did let it play with rq->lock contention.  Using
> > > cyclictest -Smp99 -i 100 -d 0, with 3 rt tasks for pull_rt_task() to
> > > pull around appears to have been a ~dead heat.
> > 
> > Good to hear that the code seems to be robust. It seems to
> > help prevent performance degradation in some workloads, and
> > nobody seems to have found regressions yet.
> 
> I had hoped for a bit of positive, but a wash isn't surprising 
> given the profile.  I tried tbench too, didn't expect to see 
> anything at all there, and got that.. so both results are 
> positive in that respect.

Ok, that's good.

Rik, mind re-sending the latest series with all the acks and 
Reviewed-by's added?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-08 22:26 [PATCH 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86,smp: auto tune spinlock backoff delay factor Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  3:13   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 12:49   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-08 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86,smp: keep spinlock delay values per hashed spinlock address Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  3:14   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 13:01   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-10 13:05     ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10 13:15       ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [DEBUG PATCH 5/5] x86,smp: add debugging code to track spinlock delay value Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86,smp: proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-08 22:54     ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  2:30   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86,smp: move waiting on contended ticket lock out of line Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:43   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-10 17:38   ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-09 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Raghavendra K T
2013-01-10  2:27   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 17:36     ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-11 20:11       ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-13 18:07         ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-10 15:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-10 15:31   ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10 19:30     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-24 13:28       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-01-10 22:24 ` Chegu Vinod

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