linux-kernel - Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:00:42 -0500
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Lorenzo Allegrucci <l_allegrucci@...oo.it>,
	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

 
Hi Nick,

> Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help look
> at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler issue,
> you might be able to do something better).

I took a look at this today and figured Id document it:

http://ozlabs.org/~anton/linux/sysbench/

Bottom line: it looks like issues in the glibc malloc library, replacing
it with the google malloc library fixes the negative scaling:

# apt-get install libgoogle-perftools0
# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libtcmalloc.so /usr/sbin/mysqld

Anton
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