Re: kernbench on 512p

Jesse Barnes
2004-08-20T00:17:20Z

On Thursday, August 19, 2004 7:38 pm, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > 41.4% 58.6% 0% rcu_state
> > 61.3% 38.7% 0% __rcu_process_callbacks+0x260
> > 41.4% 58.6% 0% rcu_check_quiescent_state+0xf0
> >
> > So it looks like the dcache lock is the biggest problem on this system
> > with this load. And although the rcu stuff has improved tremendously for
> > this system, it's still highly contended.
>
> Was this run using all of Manfred's RCU patches? If not, it would be
> interesting to see what you get with full RCU_HUGE patchset.

So that stuff isn't in 2.6.8.1-mm1? What I tested was pretty close to a stock
version of that tree. Where can I grab a version of that patchset that
applies to a recent kernel?

Thanks,
Jesse