Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756150AbYKUIx5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:53:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753254AbYKUIwk (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:52:40 -0500 Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([86.65.150.130]:55217 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752892AbYKUIwi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:52:38 -0500 Message-ID: <49267694.1030506@cosmosbay.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:51:32 +0100 From: Eric Dumazet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Christoph Lameter , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Mike Galbraith , Peter Zijlstra , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [Bug #11308] tbench regression on each kernel release from 2.6.22 -> 2.6.28 References: <1ScKicKnTUE.A.VxH.DIHIJB@chimera> <20081117090648.GG28786@elte.hu> <20081121083044.GL16242@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20081121083044.GL16242@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (gw1.cosmosbay.com [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:51:34 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1555 Lines: 53 Ingo Molnar a ?crit : > * Christoph Lameter wrote: > >> hmmm... Well we are almost there. >> >> 2.6.22: >> >> Throughput 2526.15 MB/sec 8 procs >> >> 2.6.28-rc5: >> >> Throughput 2486.2 MB/sec 8 procs >> >> 8p Dell 1950 and the number of processors specified on the tbench >> command line. > > And with net-next we might even be able to get past that magic limit? > net-next is linus-latest plus the latest and greatest networking bits: > > $ cat .git/config > > [remote "net-next"] > url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/net-next/* > > ... so might be worth a test. Just to satisfy our curiosity and to > possibly close the entry :-) > Well, bits in net-next are new stuff for 2.6.29, not really regression fixes, but yes, they should give nice tbench speedups. Now, I wish sockets and pipes not going through dcache, not tbench affair of course but real workloads... running 8 processes on a 8 way machine doing a for (;;) close(socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)); is slow as hell, we hit so many contended cache lines ... ticket spin locks are slower in this case (dcache_lock for example is taken twice when we allocate a socket(), once in d_alloc(), another one in d_instantiate()) -- 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/