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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:03:25 +0200
From: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>
To: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
NADIA DERBEY <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>
Subject: Re: Scalability requirements for sysv ipc (+namespaces broken with
SEM_UNDO)
Nadia Derbey wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:12 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 20:08 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> just the normal performance of 2.6.25-rc3 is abyssimal, 55 to 60%
>>>>> slower than 2.6.18.8:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> After manually reverting 3e148c79938aa39035669c1cfa3ff60722134535,
>>>> 2.6.25.git scaled linearly
>>>
>>>
>>> We can't just revert that patch: with IDR, a global lock is mandatory
>>> :-(
>>> We must either revert the whole idea of using IDR or live with the
>>> reduced scalability.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I looked at the problem, but didn't know what the heck to do about
>> it, so just grabbed my axe to verify/quantify.
>>
>>
>>> Actually, there are further bugs: the undo structures are not
>>> namespace-aware, thus semop with SEM_UNDO, unshare, create new array
>>> with same id, but more semaphores, another semop with SEM_UNDO will
>>> corrupt kernel memory :-(
>>> I'll try to clean up the bugs first, then I'll look at the
>>> scalability again.
>>
>>
>>
>> Great!
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I could get better results with the following solution:
> wrote an RCU-based idr api (layers allocation is managed similarly to
> the radix-tree one)
>
> Using it in the ipc code makes me get rid of the read lock taken in
> ipc_lock() (the one introduced in
> 3e148c79938aa39035669c1cfa3ff60722134535).
>
> You'll find the results in attachment (kernel is 2.6.25-rc3-mm1).
> output.25_rc3_mm1.ref.8 --> pmsg output for the 2.6.25-rc3-mm1
> plot.25_rc3_mm1.ref.8 --> previous file results for use by gnuplot
> output.25_rc3_mm1.ridr.8 --> pmsg output for the 2.6.25-rc3-mm1
> + rcu-based idrs
> plot.25_rc3_mm1.ridr.8 --> previous file results for use by gnuplot
>
>
> I think I should be able to send a patch next week. It is presently an
> uggly code: I copied idr.c and idr.h into ridr.c and ridr.h to go fast,
> so didn't do any code factorization.
>
> Regards
> Nadia
>
>
>
Sorry forgot the command:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8;do ./pmsg $i 5;done > output.25_rc3_mm1.ref.8
Regards,
Nadia
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