linux-kernel - Re: tbench regression - Why process scheduler has impact on tbench and why small per-cpu slab (SLUB) cache creates the scenario?

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Message-Id: <1189039939.26438.65.camel@ymzhang>
Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:52:19 +0800
From:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: tbench regression - Why process scheduler has impact on tbench
	and why small per-cpu slab (SLUB) cache creates the scenario?

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 03:45 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> 
> > > > However, the approach treats the slabs in the same policy. Could we
> > > > implement a per-slab specific approach like direct b)?
> > > 
> > > I am not sure what you mean by same policy. Same configuration for all 
> > > slabs?
> > Yes.
> 
> Ok. I could add the ability to specify parameters for some slabs.
Thanks. That will be more flexible.

> 
> > > Would it be possible to try the two other approaches that I suggested? I 
> > > think both of those may also solve the issue. Try booting with
> > > slab_max_order=0
> > 1) I tried slab_max_order=0 and the regression becomes 12.5%. It's still 
> > not good.
> > 
> > 2) I apllied patch 
> > slub-direct-pass-through-of-page-size-or-higher-kmalloc.patch to kernel 
> > 2.6.23-rc4. The new testing result is much better, only 1% less than 
> > 2.6.22.
I retested 2.6.22 and booted kernel with "slub_max_order=3 slub_min_objects=8".
The result is about 8.7% better than without booting parameters.

So all with booting parameter "slub_max_order=3 slub_min_objects=8", 2.6.22 is
about 5.8% better than 2.6.23-rc4. I suspect process scheduler is responsible
for the 5.8% regressions.

> 
> Ok. That seems to indicate that we should improve the alloc path in the 
> page allocator. The page allocator performance needs to be competitive on 
> page sized allocations. The problem will be largely going away when we 
> merge the pass through patch in 2.6.24.
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