Re: Scheduler(?) regression from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24 for short-lived threads

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:04 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ended up with a customer benchmark in my lap this week that doesn't
> do well on recent kernels. :(
> 
> After cutting it down to a simple testcase/microbenchmark, it seems like
> recent kernels don't do as well with short-lived threads competing
> with the thread it's cloned off of. The CFS scheduler changes come to
> mind, but I suppose it could be caused by something else as well.
> 
> The pared-down testcase is included below. Reported runtime for the
> testcase has increased almost 3x between 2.6.22 and 2.6.24:
> 
> 2.6.22: 3332 ms
> 2.6.23: 4397 ms
> 2.6.24: 8953 ms
> 2.6.24-git19: 8986 ms

My 3GHz P4 shows disjointed results.

2.6.22.17-smp
time 798 ms
time 780 ms
time 702 ms

2.6.22.17-cfs-v24.1-smp
time 562 ms
time 551 ms
time 551 ms

2.6.23.15-smp
time 254 ms
time 254 ms
time 293 ms

2.6.23.15-cfs-v24-smp
time 764 ms
time 791 ms
time 780 ms

2.6.24.1-smp
time 815 ms
time 820 ms
time 771 ms

2.6.25-smp (git today)
time 29 ms
time 61 ms
time 72 ms