From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARKS] 2.6.4 vs 2.6.4-mm1
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:58:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <405AC456.1070806@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319095047.GA6301@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>volanomark (MPS):
>>This one starts getting huge mmap_sem contention at 150+ coming
>>from futexes. Don't know what is taking the mmap_sem for writing.
>>Maybe just brk or mmap.
>>
>
>are you sure it's down_write() contention? down_read() can create
>contention just as much, simply due to the fact that hundreds of threads
>and a dozen CPUs are pounding in on the same poor lock.
>
>
No I'm not sure actually, it could be just read lock
contention. IIRC it was all coming from the semaphore's
spinlock, in up_read...
>i do think there should be a rw-semaphore variant that is per-cpu for
>the read path. (This would also fix the 4:4 threading overhead.)
>
>
That would be interesting, yes. I have (somewhere) a patch
that wakes up the semaphore's waiters outside its spinlock.
I think that only gave about 5% or so improvement though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-13 0:55 [BENCHMARKS] 2.6.4 vs 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-19 9:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-19 9:58 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-03-21 4:04 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-21 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-03-21 8:08 ` Nick Piggin
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