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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>,
	"Vinod, Chegu" <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
	"Low, Jason" <jason.low2@hp.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	aquini@redhat.com, Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] ipc: reduce ipc lock contention
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:10:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <513626E9.2040509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362476149.2225.50.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net>

On 03/05/2013 04:35 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> 2) While on an Oracle swingbench DSS (data mining) workload the
> improvements are not as exciting as with Rik's benchmark, we can see
> some positive numbers. For an 8 socket machine the following are the
> percentages of %sys time incurred in the ipc lock:
>
> Baseline (3.9-rc1):
> 100 swingbench users: 8,74%
> 400 swingbench users: 21,86%
> 800 swingbench users: 84,35%
>
> With this patchset:
> 100 swingbench users: 8,11%
> 400 swingbench users: 19,93%
> 800 swingbench users: 77,69%

Does the swingbench DSS workload use multiple semaphores, or
just one?

Your patches look like a great start to make the semaphores
more scalable. If the swingbench DSS workload uses multiple
semaphores, I have ideas for follow-up patches to make things
scale better.

What does ipcs output look like while running swingbench DSS?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  9:35 [PATCH v2 0/4] ipc: reduce ipc lock contention Davidlohr Bueso
2013-03-05 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-06  7:13   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-03-06 16:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-05 17:10 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2013-03-05 19:42   ` Waiman Long
2013-03-05 20:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-05 20:53       ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-06  3:46         ` Waiman Long
2013-03-06  3:53           ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-06  7:14             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-03-07  8:45         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-07 12:55           ` Chris Mason
2013-03-07 15:54             ` Dave Kleikamp
2013-03-07 16:42               ` Chris Mason
2013-03-06 22:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/4] ipc: replace ipc_perm.lock with an rwlock Rik van Riel
2013-03-06 22:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/4] ipc: open code and rename sem_lock Rik van Riel
2013-03-06 22:15 ` [PATCH v2 7/4] ipc: fine grained locking for semtimedop Rik van Riel
2013-03-06 22:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-03-06 23:09     ` Rik van Riel
2013-03-07  1:36   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-03-07 20:55     ` Rik van Riel

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