Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:22:29 -0400 Received: from ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com ([161.114.1.208]:4621 "EHLO ztxmail04.ztx.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:22:27 -0400 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: TPC-C benchmark used standard RH kernel Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:27:22 -0500 Message-ID: <45B36A38D959B44CB032DA427A6E106402D09E43@cceexc18.americas.cpqcorp.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: TPC-C benchmark used standard RH kernel Thread-Index: AcJgCI5NeISs3vUXSa6Q4M1Qa5XbdAACYsuA From: "Bond, Andrew" To: "Dave Hansen" Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2002 19:27:23.0951 (UTC) FILETIME=[94A7FBF0:01C26012] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6386 Lines: 118 This isn't as recent as I would like, but it will give you an idea. Top 75 from readprofile. This run was not using bigpages though. Andy 00000000 total 7872 0.0066 c0105400 default_idle 1367 21.3594 c012ea20 find_vma_prev 462 2.2212 c0142840 create_bounce 378 1.1250 c0142540 bounce_end_io_read 332 0.9881 c0197740 __make_request 256 0.1290 c012af20 zap_page_range 231 0.1739 c012e9a0 find_vma 214 1.6719 c012e780 avl_rebalance 160 0.4762 c0118d80 schedule 157 0.1609 c010ba50 do_gettimeofday 145 1.0069 c0130c30 __find_lock_page 144 0.4500 c0119150 __wake_up 142 0.9861 c01497c0 end_buffer_io_kiobuf_async 140 0.6250 c0113020 flush_tlb_mm 128 1.0000 c0168000 proc_pid_stat 125 0.2003 c012d010 do_no_page 125 0.2056 c0107128 system_call 107 1.9107 c01488d0 end_buffer_io_kiobuf 91 0.9479 c0142760 alloc_bounce_bh 91 0.4062 c01489a0 brw_kiovec 90 0.1250 c011fe90 sys_gettimeofday 89 0.5563 c012edd0 do_munmap 88 0.1310 c0142690 alloc_bounce_page 87 0.4183 c01402b0 shmem_getpage 84 0.3281 c01498a0 brw_kvec_async 77 0.0859 c0142490 bounce_end_io_write 72 0.4091 c012f3d0 __insert_vm_struct 70 0.1823 c012e1d0 do_mmap_pgoff 66 0.0581 c0137cb0 kmem_cache_alloc 59 0.2169 c012e090 lock_vma_mappings 57 1.1875 c0137ba0 free_block 52 0.1912 c012d450 handle_mm_fault 51 0.1226 c013cb50 __free_pages 50 1.5625 c0198020 submit_bh 47 0.3672 c0147260 set_bh_page 46 0.7188 c0145730 fget 45 0.7031 c012b450 mm_follow_page 45 0.1339 c01182d0 try_to_wake_up 45 0.1278 c0107380 page_fault 45 3.7500 c0199730 elevator_linus_merge 44 0.1375 c0137f20 kmem_cache_free 44 0.3438 c0178b50 try_atomic_semop 39 0.1283 c0183000 batch_entropy_store 37 0.1927 c0197440 account_io_start 36 0.4500 c0181f30 rw_raw_dev 32 0.0444 c0137aa0 kmem_cache_alloc_batch 32 0.1250 c012e8d0 avl_remove 32 0.1538 c0162490 sys_io_submit 30 0.0193 c0161d00 aio_complete 29 0.1133 c0117870 do_page_fault 29 0.0224 c0196fd0 generic_plug_device 28 0.2917 c012d800 mm_map_user_kvec 28 0.0312 c0107171 restore_all 28 1.2174 c011a4a0 remove_wait_queue 26 0.4062 c0197410 disk_round_stats 25 0.5208 c0148930 wait_kio 25 0.2232 c012a980 pte_alloc_map 25 0.0473 c0227668 csum_partial_copy_generic 24 0.0968 c01283f0 getrusage 24 0.0326 c0144ce0 sys_pread 22 0.0688 c013c3d0 rmqueue 22 0.0255 c0118690 load_balance 22 0.0241 c01973a0 locate_hd_struct 21 0.1875 c010c0e0 sys_mmap2 21 0.1313 c015bfd0 end_kio_request 20 0.2083 c012a800 __free_pte 20 0.1562 c0123ea0 add_timer 20 0.0735 c01ef250 ip_queue_xmit 19 0.0154 c0197490 account_io_end 19 0.2375 c015c300 kiobuf_wait_for_io 19 0.1080 c012b5c0 map_user_kiobuf 19 0.0247 c0161e00 aio_read_evt 18 0.1875 c012db80 unmap_kvec 18 0.1607 c010c8b0 restore_fpu 18 0.5625 c01f4130 tcp_sendmsg 17 0.0036 > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Hansen [mailto:haveblue@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:15 PM > To: Bond, Andrew > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: TPC-C benchmark used standard RH kernel > > > Bond, Andrew wrote: > > I believe I need to clarify my earlier posting about > kernel features that > > gave the benchmark a boost. The kernel that we used in > the benchmark was an > > unmodified Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 kernel. We did > tune the kernel via > > standard user space tuning, but the kernel was not > patched. HP, Red Hat, and > > Oracle have worked closely together to make sure that the > features I > > mentioned were in the Advanced Server kernel "out of the box." > > Have you done much profiling of that kernel? I'm sure a lot > of people would be > very interested to see even readprofile results from a piece > of the cluster > during a TPC run. > > -- > Dave Hansen > haveblue@us.ibm.com > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/