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Message-Id: <1206256511.4367.3.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:15:11 +0100
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Cc: paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@...l.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Scalability requirements for sysv ipc
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 07:38 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 15:22 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >>
> >>> Total: 4691827 Total: 3942000
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Thanks. Unfortunately the test was buggy, it bound the tasks to the
> >> wrong cpu :-(
> >> Could you run it again? Actually 1 cpu and 4 cpus are probably enough.
> >>
> >
> > Sure. (ran as before, hopefully no transcription errors)
> >
> >
> Thanks:
> sysv sem:
> - 2.6.22 had almost linear scaling (up to 4 cores).
> - 2.6.24.3 scales to 2 cpus, then it collapses. with 4 cores, it's 75%
> slower than 2.6.22.
>
> sysv msg:
> - neither 2.6.22 nor 2.6.24 scale very good. That's more or less
> expected, the message queue code contains a few global statistic
> counters (msg_hdrs, msg_bytes).
Actually, 2.6.22 is fine, and 2.6.24.3 is not, just as sysv sem. I just
noticed that pmsg didn't get recompiled last night (fat finger) , and
sent a correction.
-Mike
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