From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753971AbYAPSOV (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:14:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751855AbYAPSOO (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:14:14 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:42716 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbYAPSON (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:14:13 -0500 Message-ID: <478E4972.5050705@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:14:10 -0800 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frans Pop CC: ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mingo@elte.hu, steiner@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce memory and intra-node effects with large count NR_CPUs V3 References: <20080116170902.006151000@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frans Pop wrote: > travis@sgi.com wrote: >> 8472457 Total 30486950 +259% 30342823 +258% > > Hmmm. The table for previous versions looked a lot more impressive. > > now: 8472457 Total +22014493 +259% +21870366 +258% > V2 : 7172678 Total +23314404 +325% -147590 -2% > (recalculated for comparison) > > Did something go wrong with the "after" data? The previous version had each column's difference from the previous. The new one had eacho column's difference from the first column. (Also, there are differences in what "after" means. ;-) Here's the "each-relative" version. It sort of depends on if you want to see each incremental change or the net overall change. Thanks, Mike --- 128cpus 1kcpus-before 1kcpus-after 228 .altinstr_re +0 +0% +0 +0% 1219 .altinstruct +0 +0% +0 +0% 866632 .bss +1393664 +160% -147328 -6% 61374 .comment +0 +0% +0 +0% 16 .con_initcal +0 +0% +0 +0% 427560 .data +17920 +4% -1280 +0% 1165824 .data.cachel +11911168 +1021% +0 +0% 8192 .data.init_t +0 +0% +0 +0% 4096 .data.page_a +0 +0% +0 +0% 39296 .data.percpu +116480 +296% +128 +0% 188992 .data.read_m +8562784 +4530% -4096 +0% 4 .data_nosave +0 +0% +0 +0% 5141 .exit.text +9 +0% -1 +0% 138576 .init.data +896 +0% +5952 +4% 134 .init.ramfs +0 +0% +0 +0% 3192 .init.setup +0 +0% +0 +0% 160143 .init.text +500 +0% +271 +0% 2288 .initcall.in +0 +0% +0 +0% 8 .jiffies +0 +0% +0 +0% 4512 .pci_fixup +0 +0% +0 +0% 1314318 .rodata +1312 +0% -325 +0% 36856 .smp_locks -48 +0% -8 +0% 3975021 .text +9808 +0% +2560 +0% 3368 .vdso +0 +0% +0 +0% 4 .vgetcpu_mod +0 +0% +0 +0% 218 .vsyscall_0 +0 +0% +0 +0% 52 .vsyscall_1 +0 +0% +0 +0% 91 .vsyscall_2 +0 +0% +0 +0% 8 .vsyscall_3 +0 +0% +0 +0% 54 .vsyscall_fn +0 +0% +0 +0% 80 .vsyscall_gt +0 +0% +0 +0% 39480 __bug_table +0 +0% +0 +0% 16320 __ex_table +0 +0% +0 +0% 9160 __param +0 +0% +0 +0% 1818299 Text +16304 +0% +256 +0% 3975021 Data +9808 +0% +2560 +0% 866632 Bss +1393664 +160% -147328 -6% 360448 InitData +122880 +34% +4096 +0% 1415640 OtherData +20470272 +1446% -2816 +0% 39296 PerCpu +116480 +0% +128 +0% 8472457 Total +22014493 +259% -144127 +0%