linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions

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Date:	Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:11:34 -0800
From:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 17:22 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> There's perhaps one thing that might help us to see whether it's just a 
> benchmark effekt or a real problem:
> 
> With Tim's CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8, NR_IRQS only increases from 224 in 2.6.18 
> to 512 in 2.6.19-rc.
> 
> With CONFIG_NR_CPUS=255, NR_IRQS increases from 224 in 2.6.18
> to 8416 in 2.6.19-rc.
> 
> @Tim:
> Can you try CONFIG_NR_CPUS=255 with both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19-rc5?
> 

With CONFIG_NR_CPUS increased from 8 to 64:
2.6.18     see no change in fork time measured.
2.6.19-rc5 see a 138% increase in fork time.

When I increase CONFIG_NR_CPUS to 128, the child process
from fork got killed when it executes sched_getaffinity call
in the routine to pin the process onto a processor.
This happened for both 2.6.18 and 2.6.19-rc5.
I'll need to check more carefully what lmbench is doing
there.

Tim
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