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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?

  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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