linux-kernel - Re: possible huge regress

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Date:	Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:37:44 +0100
From:	Anton Starikov <ant.starikov@...il.com>
To:	Anton Starikov <ant.starikov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible huge regress

Created bug report with binary test-case.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15618


On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Anton Starikov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have benchmarked some multithreaded code here on 16-core/4-way opteron 8356 host on number of kernels (see below) and found strange results.
> Up to 8 threads we didn't see any noticeable differences in performance, but starting from 9 threads performance diverges substantially. I provide here results for 14 threads
> 
> 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 (centos)
> 
> user time: ~60 sec
> sys time: ~12 sec
> 
> 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 (fedora-12)
> 
> user time: ~60 sec
> sys time: ~75 sec
> 
> 2.6.33-0.46.rc8.git1.fc13.x86_64 (fedora-12 + rawhide kernel)
> 
> user time: ~60 sec
> sys time: ~300 sec
> 
> In all three cases real time corresponds to given numbers.
> 
> Binary used for all three cases is exactly the same (compiled on centos).
> Setups for all three cases so identical as possible (last two - the sanme fedore-12 booted with different kernels).
> I submit to LKLM because I feel that this is some general kernel issue rather than RH-flavored kernel issue.
> 
> What can be reason of this regress in performance? Is it possible to tune something to recover performance on 2.6.18 kernel? 
> 
> I perf'ed on 2.6.32.9-70.fc12.x86_64 kernel
> 
> report (top part only):
> 
> 43.64% dve22lts-mc [kernel] [k] _spin_lock_irqsave 
> 32.93% dve22lts-mc ./dve22lts-mc [.] DBSLLlookup_ret 
> 5.37% dve22lts-mc ./dve22lts-mc [.] SuperFastHash 
> 3.76% dve22lts-mc /lib64/libc-2.11.1.so [.] __GI_memcpy 
> 2.60% dve22lts-mc [kernel] [k] clear_page_c 
> 1.60% dve22lts-mc ./dve22lts-mc [.] index_next_dfs
> 
> stat: 
> 129875.554435 task-clock-msecs # 10.210 CPUs 
> 1883 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 
> 17 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 
> 2695310 page-faults # 0.021 M/sec 
> 298370338040 cycles # 2297.356 M/sec 
> 130581778178 instructions # 0.438 IPC 
> 42517143751 cache-references # 327.368 M/sec 
> 101906904 cache-misses # 0.785 M/sec 
> 
> callgraph:
> 
> 53.09%      dve22lts-mc  [kernel]                                         [k]
> _spin_lock_irqsave
>                |          
>                |--49.90%-- __down_read_trylock
>                |          down_read_trylock
>                |          do_page_fault
>                |          page_fault
>                |          |          
>                |          |--99.99%-- __GI_memcpy
>                |          |          |          
>                |          |          |--84.28%-- (nil)
>                |          |          |          
>                |          |          |--9.78%-- 0x100000000
>                |          |          |          
>                |          |           --5.94%-- 0x1
>                |           --0.01%-- 
> [...]
> 
>                |          
>                |--49.39%-- __up_read
>                |          up_read
>                |          |          
>                |          |--100.00%-- do_page_fault
>                |          |          page_fault
>                |          |          |          
>                |          |          |--99.99%-- __GI_memcpy
>                |          |          |          |          
>                |          |          |          |--84.18%-- (nil)
>                |          |          |          |          
>                |          |          |          |--10.13%-- 0x100000000
>                |          |          |          |          
>                |          |          |           --5.69%-- 0x1
>                |          |           --0.01%-- 
> [...]
> 
>                |           --0.00%-- 
> [...]
> 
>                 --0.72%-- 
> [...]
> 
> 
> Anton.

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