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Message-ID: <1347682262.4340.160.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:11:02 +0200
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Nikolay Ulyanitsky <lystor@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to
3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected
On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 23:27 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> (Adding everybody to CC and leaving the below for reference.)
>
> Guys,
>
> as Nikolay says below, we have a regression in 3.6 with pgbench's
> benchmark in postgresql.
>
> I was able to reproduce it on another box here and did a bisection run.
> It pointed to the commit below.
>
> And yes, reverting that commit fixes the issue here.
My wild (and only) theory is that this is userspace spinlock related.
If so, starting the server and benchmark SCHED_BATCH should not only
kill the regression, but likely improve throughput as well.
-Mike
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