Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

[Jie Chen <chen@jlab.org>]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jie Chen <chen@jlab.org> wrote:
> 
>>> not "BARRIER time". I've re-read the discussion and found no hint 
>>> about how to build and run a barrier test. Either i missed it or it's 
>>> so obvious to you that you didnt mention it :-)
>>>
>>> 	Ingo
>> Hi, Ingo:
>>
>> Did you do configure --enable-public-release? My qmt is for qcd 
>> calculation (one type of physics code) [...]
> 
> yes, i did exactly as instructed.
> 
>> [...]. Without the above flag one can only test PARALLEL overhead. 
>> Actually the PARALLEL benchmark has the same behavior as the BARRIER. 
>> Thanks.
> 
> hm, but PARALLEL does not seem to do that much context switching. So 
> basically you create the threads and do a few short runs to establish 
> overhead? Threads do not get fork-balanced at the moment - but turning 
> it on would be easy. Could you try the patch below - how does it impact 
> your results? (and please keep affinity setting off)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> ----------->
> Subject: sched: reactivate fork balancing
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> reactivate fork balancing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
>  include/linux/topology.h |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux/include/linux/topology.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/topology.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/topology.h
> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
>  	.forkexec_idx		= 0,			\
>  	.flags			= SD_LOAD_BALANCE	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	\
> +				| SD_BALANCE_FORK	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_EXEC	\
>  				| SD_WAKE_AFFINE	\
>  				| SD_WAKE_IDLE		\
> @@ -134,6 +135,7 @@
>  	.forkexec_idx		= 1,			\
>  	.flags			= SD_LOAD_BALANCE	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	\
> +				| SD_BALANCE_FORK	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_EXEC	\
>  				| SD_WAKE_AFFINE	\
>  				| SD_WAKE_IDLE		\
> @@ -165,6 +167,7 @@
>  	.forkexec_idx		= 1,			\
>  	.flags			= SD_LOAD_BALANCE	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE	\
> +				| SD_BALANCE_FORK	\
>  				| SD_BALANCE_EXEC	\
>  				| SD_WAKE_AFFINE	\
>  				| BALANCE_FOR_PKG_POWER,\
Hi, Ingo:

I did patch the header file and recompiled the kernel. I observed no 
difference (two threads overhead stays too high). Thank you.

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