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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	ak@linux.intel.com, cl@gentwo.org, umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu] Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:17:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A8611F.1000804@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A85BF9.7030006@intel.com>

On 06/23/2014 09:55 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This still has a regression.  Commit 1ed70de (from Paul's git tree),
> gets a result of 52231880.  If I back up two commits to v3.16-rc1 and
> revert ac1bea85 (the original culprit) the result goes back up to 57308512.
> 
> So something is still going on here.
> 
> I'll go back and compare the grace period ages to see if I can tell what
> is going on.

RCU_TRACE interferes with the benchmark a little bit, and it lowers the
delta that the regression causes.  So, evaluate this cautiously.

According to rcu_sched/rcugp, the average "age" is:

v3.16-rc1, with ac1bea85 reverted:	10.7
v3.16-rc1, plus e552592e:		 6.1

Paul, have you been keeping an eye on rcugp?  Even if I run my system
with only 10 threads, I still see this basic pattern where the average
"age" is lower when I see lower performance.  It seems to be a
reasonable proxy that could be used instead of waiting on me to re-run
tests.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-23 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-21  2:59 [PATCH tip/core/rcu] Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-21  4:29 ` Josh Triplett
2014-06-21  6:06   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 13:53     ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-23 15:26       ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23  6:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-23 13:33   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 13:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-23 16:45     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 15:49   ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-23 16:43     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 17:19       ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-23 17:42         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 16:55 ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 17:16   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 17:34     ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 17:17   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-06-23 18:09     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-23 23:30       ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24  0:15         ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-24  0:20           ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24  0:39             ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-24 16:18               ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 20:43               ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24 21:15                 ` Paul E. McKenney

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