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Message-ID: <45E21FEC.9060605@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:46:52 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Lorenzo Allegrucci <l_allegrucci@...oo.it>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
> Hi lkml,
> 
> according to the test below (sysbench) Linux seems to have scalability
> problems beyond 8 client threads:
> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/6268.html#cutid1
> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/5705.html
> Hardware is an 8-core amd64 system and jeffr seems willing to try more
> Linux versions on that machine.
> Anyway, is there anyone who can reproduce this?

I have reproduced it on a quad core test system.

With 4 threads (on 4 cores) I get a high throughput, with
approximately 58% user time and 42% system time.

With 8 threads (on 4 cores) I get way lower throughput,
with 37% user time, 29% system time 35% idle time!

The maximum time taken per query also increases from
0.0096s to 0.5273s. Ouch!

I don't know if this is MySQL, glibc or Linux kernel,
but something strange is going on...

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