From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
alex.shi@intel.com,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@intel.com>,
"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:30:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i2z84144f021004051030k7ff5190cyc083aa12c552dfac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004050853300.23149@router.home>
(I'm CC'ing Tejun)
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>
>> My testing command on my 2 socket machine:
>> #hackbench 100 process 20000
>>
>> With 2.6.33, it takes for about 96 seconds while 2.6.34-rc2 (or the latest tip tree)
>> takes for about 101 seconds.
>>
>> perf shows some functions around SLUB have more cpu utilization, while some other
>> SLUB functions have less cpu utilization.
>
> Hmnmmm... The dynamic percpu areas use page tables and that data is used
> in the fast path. Maybe the high thread count causes tlb trashing?
Hmm indeed. I don't see anything particularly funny in the SLUB percpu
conversion so maybe this is a more issue with the new percpu
allocator?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-05 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 8:40 hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e Alex Shi
2010-03-25 14:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-03-26 2:35 ` Alex Shi
2010-04-01 9:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-01 15:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-02 8:06 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-05 13:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-05 17:30 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-04-06 1:27 ` Tejun Heo
2010-04-06 8:28 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-06 15:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-06 20:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-06 22:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-07 2:34 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-07 6:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-07 9:07 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-07 9:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-07 10:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-04-07 16:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-07 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-07 16:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-04-07 16:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-04-07 18:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-07 18:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-04-07 19:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-07 18:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 1:05 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-08 4:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 5:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 7:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 7:05 ` David Miller
2010-04-08 7:20 ` David Miller
2010-04-08 7:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 7:54 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-08 7:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 8:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 15:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-08 15:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-07 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-08 7:18 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-07 2:20 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2010-04-07 0:58 ` Zhang, Yanmin
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