linux-kernel - Re: [LKP] [mm] 9bc8039e71: will-it-scale.per_thread

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Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:06:36 -0800
From:   Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
        "Wang, Kemi" <kemi.wang@...el.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "vbabka@...e.cz" <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     "yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com" <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "mhocko@...nel.org" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "lkp@...org" <lkp@...org>,
        "kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [mm] 9bc8039e71: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -64.1%
 regression

On 12/27/18 6:55 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/27/2018 08:31 PM, Wang, Kemi wrote:
>> Hi, Waiman
>>    Did you post that patch? Let's see if it helps.
> 
> I did post the patch a while ago. I will need to rebase it to a new
> baseline. Will do that in a week or 2.
> 
> -Longman
> 

Waiman,

In a large scale OLTP benchmark, we are also seeing a 1% loss in performance
from patch 9bc8039e71. We'll be interested to try out your patch to
restore some optimistic spinning on reader held sem.

Thanks.

Tim