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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave@linu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:13:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F14296B.4070003@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC1B881-0724-49E3-B892-F40BEB07D15D@suse.de>

On 01/16/2012 09:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
[...]
>> Result for PLE machine:
>> ======================
>> Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R)  X7560 2.27GHz CPU with 32/64 core, with 8
>>          online cores and 4*64GB RAM
>>
>> Kernbench:
>> 		 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>> 		 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> Scenario A:	 			
>> case 1x:	 161.263 (56.518) 	 159.635 (40.5621) 	1.00953
>> case 2x:	 190.748 (61.2745) 	 190.606 (54.4766) 	0.0744438
>> case 3x:	 227.378 (100.215) 	 225.442 (92.0809) 	0.851446
>>
>> Scenario B:
>> 		 446.104 (58.54 )	 433.12733 (54.476)	2.91
>>
>> Dbench:
>> Throughput is in MB/sec
>> NRCLIENTS	 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>>                	 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> 8       	1.101190  (0.875082) 	1.700395  (0.846809) 	54.4143
>> 16      	1.524312  (0.120354) 	1.477553  (0.058166) 	-3.06755
>> 32        	2.143028  (0.157103) 	2.090307  (0.136778) 	-2.46012
>
> So on a very contended system we're actually slower? Is this expected?
>
>

I think, the result is interesting because its PLE machine. I have to 
experiment more with parameters, SPIN_THRESHOLD, and also may be ple_gap 
and ple_window.

> Alex
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-14 18:25 [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 1/5] debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 2/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:24   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  8:43     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  9:03   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:55     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 3/5] kvm guest : Added configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 4/5] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:12   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  7:25     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  9:05   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:13     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:47       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:49         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-17 11:02   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 11:33     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18  1:34       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 13:54         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 21:52           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-24 14:08             ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-24 18:51               ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:57     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-24 19:01       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:57 ` [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  6:40   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16  8:55     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:59       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:48         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:24     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17  0:30       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:23         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:43   ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2012-01-16 13:49     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 18:48       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:20   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 14:23     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 18:38       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:42         ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 17:27           ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 17:39             ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 18:36               ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 21:57                 ` Dave Hansen
2012-01-18  2:27                   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25  8:55                 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 16:35                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 17:45                     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 19:05                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found] ` <20120114182710.8604.22277.sendpatchset@oc5400248562.ibm.com>
2012-01-16  3:23   ` [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:51     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16  4:00       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  8:47         ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  8:44     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:26       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  9:00   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:40     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 10:14       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:11         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17  9:14           ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 12:26             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 12:51               ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 13:11                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:20                   ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 14:28                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 15:32                       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 15:53                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-20 15:09                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:13                 ` Raghavendra K T

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