From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com, npiggin@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lmbench ctxsw regression with CFS
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:25:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070813.202528.05603304.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070813200038.7fc8a9e6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:00:38 -0700
> Guys, repeat after me: "context switch is not a fast path". Take
> that benchmark and set fire to it.
Nothing in this world is so absolute :-)
Regardless of the value of lat_ctx, we should thank it for showing
that something is more expensive now. And it definitely warrants
figuring out what paths are big cycle eaters now and why.
Not "on IA64 indirect calls are expensive, so that must be it", but
rather doing cycle analysis of the relevant scheduling functions to
figure out what might be wrong.
I'm willing to bet it's something completely trivial and easy
to amend, rather than a fundamental issue. But somebody has
to _look_ instead of supposing this and that.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 2:15 Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 2:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-02 2:41 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-02 7:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-02 15:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-03 0:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-04 6:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-13 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2007-08-14 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-14 3:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-16 21:28 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-14 3:25 ` David Miller [this message]
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