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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Styner, Douglas W" <douglas.w.styner@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-driver@qlogic.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:02:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljpmk29b.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D7C42C27E6CB1E4D8CBDF2F81EA92A260345836A3A@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> (Douglas W. Styner's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:49:57 -0700")

"Styner, Douglas W" <douglas.w.styner@intel.com> writes:

>
> ======oprofile 0.9.3 CPU_CLK_UNHALTED for top 30 functions
> Cycles% 2.6.24.2                   Cycles% 2.6.30-rc2
> 74.8578 <database>                   67.6966 <database>

The dip in database cycles is indeed worrying.

> 1.0500 qla24xx_start_scsi          1.1724 qla24xx_start_scsi
> 0.8089 schedule                    1.0578 qla24xx_intr_handler
> 0.5864 kmem_cache_alloc            0.8259 __schedule
> 0.4989 __blockdev_direct_IO        0.7451 kmem_cache_alloc
> 0.4357 __sigsetjmp                 0.4872 __blockdev_direct_IO
> 0.4152 copy_user_generic_string    0.4390 task_rq_lock
> 0.3953 qla24xx_intr_handler        0.4338 __sigsetjmp

And also why the qla24xx_intr_handler became ~2.5x as expensive.
Cc linux-scsi and qla24xx maintainers.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27  7:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 16:49 Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-27  7:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-04-27 18:38   ` Discrepancies between Oprofile and vmstat Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-27 18:49     ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-27 18:53     ` Discrepancies between Oprofile and vmstat II Andi Kleen
2009-04-27 18:51       ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-27 22:15       ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-27 22:22         ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-27 22:35           ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-28  5:26           ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-28 16:57   ` Mainline kernel OLTP performance update Chuck Ebbert
2009-04-28 17:15     ` James Bottomley
2009-04-28 17:17       ` Styner, Douglas W
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-25 18:26 Ma, Chinang
2009-05-04 15:54 Styner, Douglas W
2009-05-06  6:29 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2009-05-06 15:53   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-05-06 18:05     ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-05-06 18:12       ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-05-06 18:24         ` Anirban Chakraborty
2009-05-06 19:25           ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-05-06 18:19   ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-28 17:22 Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-28 17:08 Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-29  7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  8:28   ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-29 16:00     ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-29 16:06       ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-04-29 16:19         ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-29 15:48   ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-29 16:07     ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 16:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-29 17:46         ` Chris Mason
2009-04-29 18:06           ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-04-29 18:25             ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-04-29 17:52         ` Styner, Douglas W
2009-01-13 21:10 Ma, Chinang
2009-01-13 22:44 ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15  0:35   ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  1:21     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  2:04       ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15  2:27         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15  7:11           ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-19 18:04             ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 18:37               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 18:55                 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-19 19:07                   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-19 23:40                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15  2:39         ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-15  2:47           ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15  3:36             ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20 13:27             ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]               ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A497632C@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-22 11:29                 ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]                   ` <588992150B702C48B3312184F1B810AD03A4F59632@azsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-01-27  8:28                     ` Jens Axboe
2009-01-15  7:24         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-15  9:46           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-15 13:52             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 14:42               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:16               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:21                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:31                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-16 10:42                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 10:55                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  7:13                         ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:05                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:33                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:42                               ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  8:47                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19  8:57                                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19  9:48                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-19 10:03                                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 20:59                     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-16  0:27           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  4:03             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  4:12               ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  6:46                 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  6:55                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16  7:06                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  7:53                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16 10:20                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-20  5:16                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-21 23:58                           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-22  8:36                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:15                               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-22  9:28                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-22  9:47                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  3:02                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  6:52                                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:06                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  8:30                                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:40                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23  9:46                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:22                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 15:31                                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-23 15:55                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-01-23 16:01                                                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-24  2:55                                                 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-24  7:36                                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12  5:22                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12  5:47                                                       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-02-12 15:25                                                         ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-12 16:07                                                           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-02-12 16:03                                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-01-26 17:36                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-02-01  2:52                                                     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-23  8:33                                       ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-23  9:02                                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-01-16  7:00                   ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  7:25                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16  8:59                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 18:11                   ` Rick Jones
2009-01-19  7:43                     ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-19 22:19                       ` Rick Jones
2009-01-15 14:12         ` James Bottomley
2009-01-15 17:44           ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 18:00             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-15 18:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-15 18:44                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 18:46                   ` Wilcox, Matthew R
2009-01-15 19:44                     ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-16 18:14                       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-16 19:09                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-20 12:45                         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-01-15 19:28                 ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-15 16:48       ` Ma, Chinang
2009-01-12 18:30 Ma, Chinang

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