linux-kernel - Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:22 +0000
From:	"Colin Fowler" <elethiomel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: Performance loss 2.6.22->22.6.23->2.6.24-rc7 on CPU intensive benchmark on 8 Core Xeon

> there are a handful of 'scheduler feature bits' in
> /proc/sys/kernel/sched_features:
>
> enum {
>         SCHED_FEAT_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS    = 1,
>         SCHED_FEAT_WAKEUP_PREEMPT       = 2,
>         SCHED_FEAT_START_DEBIT          = 4,
>         SCHED_FEAT_TREE_AVG             = 8,
>         SCHED_FEAT_APPROX_AVG           = 16,
> };
>

Toggling SCHED_FEAT_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS to 0 or
SCHED_FEAT_WAKEUP_PREEMPT to 0 gives me results more inline with my
2.6.22 results. Toggling them both to 0 gives me slightly better
results than 2.6.22!

>   /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
>
> does that change the results?
>

no measurable difference on this toggle that I can see.
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