linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory barrier

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:02:31 -0500
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, josh@...htriplett.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] introduce sys_membarrier(): process-wide memory
	barrier

* Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:53:38PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Steven Rostedt (rostedt@...dmis.org) wrote:
> > > Well, if we just grab the task_rq(task)->lock here, then we should be
> > > OK? We would guarantee that curr is either the task we want or not.
> > 
> > Hrm, I just tested it, and there seems to be a significant performance
> > penality involved with taking these locks for each CPU, even with just 8
> > cores. So if we can do without the locks, that would be preferred.
> 
> How significant?  Factor of two?  Two orders of magnitude?
> 

On a 8-core Intel Xeon (T is the number of threads receiving the IPIs):

Without runqueue locks:

T=1: 0m13.911s
T=2: 0m20.730s
T=3: 0m21.474s
T=4: 0m27.952s
T=5: 0m26.286s
T=6: 0m27.855s
T=7: 0m29.695s

With runqueue locks:

T=1: 0m15.802s
T=2: 0m22.484s
T=3: 0m24.751s
T=4: 0m29.134s
T=5: 0m30.094s
T=6: 0m33.090s
T=7: 0m33.897s

So on 8 cores, taking spinlocks for each of the 8 runqueues adds about
15% overhead when doing an IPI to 1 thread. Therefore, that won't be
pretty on 128+-core machines.

Thanks,

Mathieu



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