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From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
To: "Paulo Marques" <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: "Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"\"J.A. Magallón\"" <jamagallon@ono.com>,
	"Hiro Yoshioka" <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>,
	davej@redhat.com, harlan@artselect.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
	l_allegrucci@yahoo.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, suparna@in.ibm.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:40:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29495f1d0702271240p1f446a74me9623ae756c67eb5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E4469C.8000505@grupopie.com>

On 2/27/07, Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > J.A. Magallón wrote:
> >>[...]
> >> Its the same to answer 4+4 queries than 8 at half the speed, isn't it ?
> >
> > That still doesn't fix the potential Linux problem that this
> > benchmark identified.
> >
> > To clarify: I don't care as much about MySQL performance as
> > I care about identifying and fixing this potential bug in
> > Linux.
>
> IIRC a long time ago there was a change in the scheduler to prevent a
> low prio task running on a sibling of a hyperthreaded processor to slow
> down a higher prio task on another sibling of the same processor.
>
> Basically the scheduler would put the low prio task to sleep during an
> adequate task slice to allow the other sibling to run at full speed for
> a while.
>
> I don't know the scheduler code well enough, but comments like this one
> make me think that the change is still in place:

<snip>

> If that is the case, turning off CONFIG_SCHED_SMT would solve the problem.

To chime in here, I was attempting to reproduce this on an 8-way Xeon
box (4 dual-core). SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC on led to scaling issues
when above 4 threads (4 threads was the peak). To the point, where I
couldn't break 1000 transactions per second. Turning both off (with
2.6.20.1) gives much better performance through 16 threads. I am now
running for the cases from 17 to 32 to see if I can reproduce the
problem at hand. I'll regenerate my data and post numbers soon.

I don't know if anyone else has those on in their kernel .config, but
I'd suggest turning them off, as Paulo said.

Thanks,
Nish

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-25 17:44 SMP performance degradation with sysbench Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-25 23:46 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-26 13:36   ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-26 13:41     ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-26 22:04     ` Pete Harlan
2007-02-26 22:36       ` Dave Jones
2007-02-27  0:32         ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27  0:43           ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27  4:03             ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27  4:31               ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27  8:14                 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-02-27 14:02                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 14:56                     ` Paulo Marques
2007-02-27 20:40                       ` Nish Aravamudan [this message]
2007-02-28  2:21                       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28  2:52                         ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-01  0:20                           ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-27 19:05                     ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-03-01 16:57                       ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-28  1:27     ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-28  2:22       ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-28  2:51         ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-12 22:00     ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-13  5:11       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13  9:45         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:06           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:31             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:37               ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:57                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 11:12                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:40                     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 11:56                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:42                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 12:02                       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 12:27                         ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-03-13 12:08                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14 23:33                         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-03-20  2:29                           ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-04-02  2:59                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-03-13  6:00       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14  0:36       ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-14  1:00         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14  1:09           ` Nish Aravamudan
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2007-02-28  0:20           ` Robert Hancock
2007-02-28  1:32             ` Hiro Yoshioka

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