linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2 1/2] sched: check for prev_cpu == this_cpu before calling wake

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:45:23 -0700
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.jf.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.jf.intel.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v2 1/2] sched: check for prev_cpu == this_cpu before
 calling wake_affine()

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:20 -0700, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Do you have a compute load bouncing painfully which this patch cures?
> 
> I have no strong objections, and the result is certainly easier on the
> eye.  If I were making the decision, I'd want to see some numbers.

Mike, PeterZ,

Finally got sometime to get back to this and provide some data backing
up my patch under discussion. Here are my test results:

System is a two socket quad-core NHM-EP with SMT enabled and the
workload is specjbb2005.

Warehouses    	Throughput
	     tip   tip+proposed-fix
    1	    35142   35027
    2	    73563   75977
    3	   105806  109836
    4	   133421  142490
    5	   152151  168888
    6	   164936  195392
    7	   184763  208155
    8	   192419  223846

PeterZ, I think the above clearly shows that we have a problem with the
current -tip code. Please consider the proposed patch (which can be
found at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127007936408754&w=2)

Mike, with the above data, can I have your Ack for the patch?

thanks,
suresh

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/