Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262135AbUCVRWh (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:22:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262142AbUCVRWg (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:22:36 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30853 "EHLO fire-2.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262135AbUCVRWd (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:22:33 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm2 From: Mary Edie Meredith Reply-To: maryedie@osdl.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <20040319183906.I8594@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20040314172809.31bd72f7.akpm@osdl.org> <200403181737.i2IHbCE09261@mail.osdl.org> <20040318100615.7f2943ea.akpm@osdl.org> <20040318192707.GV22234@suse.de> <20040318191530.34e04cb2.akpm@osdl.org> <20040318194150.4de65049.akpm@osdl.org> <20040319183906.I8594@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: OSDL Message-Id: <1079975940.23641.580.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:19:02 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2504 Lines: 66 [was "Poor DBT-3 pgsql 8way numbers on recent 2.6 mm kernels" on linux-mm] Andrew, This same patch (02) applied in STP (plm 2780) when run against dbt3-pgsql DSS workload displays the performance problem with the throughput numbers that I reported on linux-mm on our 8way systems, where the previous patch (plm 2777 -01) does not. Here is the data (patches applied to 2.6.5-rc1) PLM.....CPUs.Runid..Thruput Metric (bigger is better) 2777(01) 8 290298 138.22 (base ) 2779(02) 8 290304 88.57 (-35.9%) The 8way is a 700MHz (1024k processor cache) with 8GB of memory. Original message on linux-mm: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=107913089923436&w=2 Results from runid 290298 (the good result); http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290298/ (top level) Results from runid 290304 (the bad result): http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290305/ (top level) For sar results see "Raw data" section everything labeled as "thruput.sar." http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290305/profile/after_throughput_test_1-tick.top20 (profile of throughput phase of the test) http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290305/results/plot/thuput.vmstat.txt (vmstat of thoughput phase of the test) On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 18:39, Mark Wong wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:41:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > Mark, if it's OK I'll run up some kernels for you to test. > > > > At > > > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/markw/ > > Ok, looks like I take the first hit with the 02 patch. Here's re-summary: > > kernel 16 kb 32 kb 64 kb 128 kb 256 kb 512 kb > 2.6.3 2308 2335 2348 2334 > 2.6.4-mm2 2028 2048 2074 2096 2082 2078 > 2.6.5-rc1-01 2394 > 2.6.5-rc1-02 2117 > 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 2036 > - > 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/ -- Mary Edie Meredith maryedie@osdl.org 503-626-2455 x42 Open Source Development Labs - 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/