netdev - Re: hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e

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Message-ID: <1270714195.2215.14.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:09:55 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	alex.shi@...el.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@...el.com>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: hackbench regression due to commit 9dfc6e68bfe6e

Le jeudi 08 avril 2010 à 09:54 +0200, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> Le jeudi 08 avril 2010 à 15:54 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin a écrit :
> 
> > If there are 2 nodes in the machine, processes on node 0 will contact MCH of
> > node 1 to access memory of node 1. I suspect the MCH of node 1 might enter
> > a power-saving mode when all the cpus of node 1 are free. So the transactions
> > from MCH 1 to MCH 0 has a larger latency.
> > 
> 
> Hmm, thanks for the hint, I will investigate this.

Oh well, 

perf timechart record &

Instant crash

Call Trace:
 perf_trace_sched_switch+0xd5/0x120
 schedule+0x6b5/0x860
 retint_careful+0xd/0x21
 
RIP ffffffff81010955 perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs+0x15/0x40
CR2: 00000000d21f1422


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