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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:02:40 +0200
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> "Styner, Douglas W" <douglas.w.styner@intel.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > ======oprofile 0.9.3 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED for top 30 functions
> > Cycles% 2.6.24.2                   Cycles% 2.6.30-rc2
> > 74.8578 <database>                   67.6966 <database>
> 
> The dip in database cycles is indeed worrying.
> 
> > 1.0500 qla24xx_start_scsi          1.1724 qla24xx_start_scsi
> > 0.8089 schedule                    1.0578 qla24xx_intr_handler
> > 0.5864 kmem_cache_alloc            0.8259 __schedule
> > 0.4989 __blockdev_direct_IO        0.7451 kmem_cache_alloc
> > 0.4357 __sigsetjmp                 0.4872 __blockdev_direct_IO
> > 0.4152 copy_user_generic_string    0.4390 task_rq_lock
> > 0.3953 qla24xx_intr_handler        0.4338 __sigsetjmp
> 
> And also why the qla24xx_intr_handler became ~2.5x as expensive.
> Cc linux-scsi and qla24xx maintainers.
> 

They are getting 31000 interrupts/sec vs. 22000/sec on older kernels.
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