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From: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aquini@redhat.com,
	walken@google.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, lwoodman@redhat.com,
	jeremy@goop.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	knoel@redhat.com, chegu_vinod@hp.com,
	raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:19:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1357831182.5841.21.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130108172632.1126898a@annuminas.surriel.com>

On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 17:26 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Please let me know if you manage to break this code in any way,
> so I can fix it...

I didn't break it, but did let it play with rq->lock contention.  Using
cyclictest -Smp99 -i 100 -d 0, with 3 rt tasks for pull_rt_task() to
pull around appears to have been a ~dead heat.

              3.6.11                                    3.6.11-spinlock

   PerfTop:   78852 irqs/sec  kernel:96.4%  exact:  0.0% [1000Hz cycles],  (all, 80 CPUs)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

             samples  pcnt function                     samples  pcnt function
             _______ _____ ___________________________  _______ _____ ___________________________

           468341.00 52.0% cpupri_set                  471786.00 52.0% cpupri_set
           110259.00 12.2% _raw_spin_lock               88963.00  9.8% ticket_spin_lock_wait
            78863.00  8.8% native_write_msr_safe        77109.00  8.5% native_write_msr_safe
            42882.00  4.8% __schedule                   48858.00  5.4% native_write_cr0
            40930.00  4.5% native_write_cr0             47038.00  5.2% __schedule
            13718.00  1.5% finish_task_switch           24775.00  2.7% _raw_spin_lock
            13188.00  1.5% plist_del                    13117.00  1.4% plist_del
            13078.00  1.5% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave       12372.00  1.4% ttwu_do_wakeup
            12083.00  1.3% ttwu_do_wakeup               11553.00  1.3% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
             8359.00  0.9% pull_rt_task                  8186.00  0.9% pull_rt_task
             6979.00  0.8% apic_timer_interrupt          7989.00  0.9% finish_task_switch
             4623.00  0.5% __enqueue_rt_entity           6430.00  0.7% apic_timer_interrupt
             3961.00  0.4% resched_task                  4721.00  0.5% resched_task
             3942.00  0.4% __switch_to                   4109.00  0.5% __switch_to
             3128.00  0.3% _raw_spin_trylock             2917.00  0.3% rcu_idle_exit_common
             3081.00  0.3% __tick_nohz_idle_enter        2897.00  0.3% __local_bh_enable
             2561.00  0.3% update_curr_rt                2873.00  0.3% _raw_spin_trylock
             2385.00  0.3% _raw_spin_lock_irq            2674.00  0.3% __enqueue_rt_entity
             2190.00  0.2% __local_bh_enable             2434.00  0.3% update_curr_rt
             1904.00  0.2% rcu_idle_exit_common          2161.00  0.2% hrtimer_interrupt
             1870.00  0.2% clockevents_program_event     2106.00  0.2% ktime_get_update_offsets
             1828.00  0.2% hrtimer_interrupt             1766.00  0.2% tick_nohz_idle_exit
             1741.00  0.2% do_nanosleep                  1608.00  0.2% __tick_nohz_idle_enter
             1681.00  0.2% sys_clock_nanosleep           1437.00  0.2% do_nanosleep
             1639.00  0.2% pick_next_task_rt             1428.00  0.2% hrtimer_init
             1630.00  0.2% pick_next_task_stop           1320.00  0.1% sched_clock_idle_sleep_event
             1535.00  0.2% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore   1290.00  0.1% sys_clock_nanosleep


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-10 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-08 22:26 Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86,smp: auto tune spinlock backoff delay factor Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  3:13   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 12:49   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-08 22:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86,smp: keep spinlock delay values per hashed spinlock address Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  3:14   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 13:01   ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-10 13:05     ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10 13:15       ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [DEBUG PATCH 5/5] x86,smp: add debugging code to track spinlock delay value Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86,smp: proportional backoff for ticket spinlocks Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:50   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-08 22:54     ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10  2:30   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-08 22:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86,smp: move waiting on contended ticket lock out of line Rik van Riel
2013-01-08 22:43   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-10 17:38   ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-09 12:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning Raghavendra K T
2013-01-10  2:27   ` Rafael Aquini
2013-01-10 17:36     ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-11 20:11       ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-13 18:07         ` Raghavendra K T
2013-01-10 15:19 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2013-01-10 15:31   ` Rik van Riel
2013-01-10 19:30     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-24 13:28       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-10 22:24 ` Chegu Vinod

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