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
next prev parent 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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