From: Jonathan Walsh <jwalsh@atl.lmco.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Gautam H. Thaker" <gthaker@atl.lmco.com>, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: RE: ~5x greater CPU load for a networked application when using 2.6.15-rt15-smp vs. 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:08:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B3E920.9070907@atl.lmco.com> (raw)
As a follow up to previous emails (Gautam Thaker, Ingo Molnar, Ted Tso, et. al.) on the subject of large CPU overhead by the RT kernel when under heavy network load, I ran the following test in order to get more reasonable data. I have 19 nodes with 20 "virtual" node processes sending UDP messages to a single host at a rate of 100Hz for 38,000 packets per second. Using cyclesoak to determine cpu usage (over 240 samples, 1 sample per second), I found the following results:
RT kernel: linux-2.6.17-rt1-uni
Mean: 48.9%
Variance: 5.91
Standard Deviation: 2.43
Standard kernel: Standard Fedora Core 4
Mean: 23.2%
Variance: 0.237
Standard Deviation: 0.4867
Thus I found the average cpu load on the RT kernel to be 2.11 times that of the standard kernel. Hopefully this information will be of some use.
-Jonathan Walsh
Distributed Processing Lab; Lockheed Martin Adv. Tech. Labs
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2006-07-11 18:08 Jonathan Walsh [this message]
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2006-02-23 19:55 ~5x greater CPU load for a networked application when using 2.6.15-rt15-smp vs. 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 Gautam H Thaker
2006-02-23 20:15 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 20:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-23 21:06 ` Nish Aravamudan
2006-02-23 21:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-23 21:14 ` Nish Aravamudan
2006-02-23 22:07 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-02-24 8:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-24 12:11 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24 20:06 ` Gautam H Thaker
2006-02-24 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-24 20:44 ` Gautam H Thaker
2006-02-24 16:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2006-02-24 19:25 ` Gautam H Thaker
2006-02-28 19:27 ` Matt Mackall
2006-02-28 22:19 ` Gautam H Thaker
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