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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:51:12 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Luca Zini <luca.zini@...il.com>, aagaande@...il.com,
rdelcueto@...mail.com, mingo@...e.hu,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
Subject: Re: scheduler vs hardware? (was Re: another i7 (linux) bug?)
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 08:19 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > if I run a cpu intensive process with the lowest priority (19
> > from man nice) I obtain much better performance that with the
> > highest priority available (-20 from man nice).
> >
> > For example the same file is processed by lame in 8.7 seconds
> > at the lowest priority, and in 12 seconds at the highest
> > priority. Before posting a bug I wold like to understand if
> > this is a problem related to the i7 mobile (my processor is a
> > i7 Q720).
> >
> > As far as I tested on the same laptop series (dell studio 15),
> > with the same kernel this problem does not exists.
>
> So you only see this on the i7. That's odd. Can you try 33-rc5?
>
> Posting a reliable reproducer would be nice. It'd also be nice to see
> what all is running when you see this, and where.
Using a sample from: http://lame.sourceforge.net/quality.php
My laptop does:
# time nice -n 19 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:03/ 0:03| 0:03/ 0:03| 9.3341x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m3.273s
user 0m3.217s
sys 0m0.022s
# time nice -n 0 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:01/ 0:01| 0:01/ 0:01| 27.239x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m1.121s
user 0m1.102s
sys 0m0.013s
# time nice -n -20 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:01/ 0:01| 0:01/ 0:01| 27.239x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m1.112s
user 0m1.093s
sys 0m0.018s
On a Nehalem class server machine it does:
# time nice -n 19 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 32.926x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m0.932s
user 0m0.917s
sys 0m0.005s
# time nice -n 0 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 32.568x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m0.927s
user 0m0.922s
sys 0m0.003s
# time nice -n -20 lame -b 256 -V0 -h youcantdothat.wav - > /dev/null
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 19383 Hz - 19916 Hz
Encoding youcantdothat.wav to <stdout>
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III VBR(q=0)
Frame | CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU | ETA
1147/1147 (100%)| 0:00/ 0:00| 0:00/ 0:00| 32.926x| 0:00
32 [ 1] *
256 [1009] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
320 [ 137] %%%%%%%%%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
kbps LR MS % long switch short %
263.4 99.1 0.9 90.5 5.5 4.0
real 0m0.919s
user 0m0.914s
sys 0m0.005s
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