Re: [PATCH 8/5] llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops

Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-12T14:32:35Z

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 17:26 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 05:05 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Subject: llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops
> > From: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > Date: Mon Sep 12 15:50:49 CEST 2011
> >
> > Initial benchmarks show they're a net loss (2 socket wsm):
> >
> > $ for i in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor ; do echo performance> $i; done
> > $ echo 4096 32000 64 128> /proc/sys/kernel/sem
> > $ ./sembench -t 2048 -w 1900 -o 0
> >
>
> We hyperthreading enabled, and were all threads loaded? cpu_relax
> allows the other thread to make more progress while the spinner relaxes.

Yeah, with HT enabled, the benchmark runs 2048 tasks and does 1900 task
bulk wakeups or so. Forgot the details, but it basically stresses the
sleep+wakeup paths like nobodies business.