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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"lizf@cn.fujitsu.com" <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"menage@google.com" <menage@google.com>,
	xemul@openvz.org, prarit@redhat.com, andi.kleen@intel.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED][PATCH][mmotm] Help Root Memory Cgroup Resource Counters Scale Better (v5)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:31:23 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090814020122.GL5087@balbir.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090813083524.GC21389@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [2009-08-13 10:35:24]:

> 
> * Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Without Patch
> > 
> >  Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':
> > 
> >   5826093739340  cycles                   #    809.989 M/sec
> >    408883496292  instructions             #      0.070 IPC
> >      7057079452  cache-references         #      0.981 M/sec
> >      3036086243  cache-misses             #      0.422 M/sec
> 
> > With this patch applied
> > 
> >  Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':
> > 
> >   5957054385619  cycles                   #    828.333 M/sec
> >   1058117350365  instructions             #      0.178 IPC
> >      9161776218  cache-references         #      1.274 M/sec
> >      1920494280  cache-misses             #      0.267 M/sec
> 
> Nice how the instruction count and the IPC value incraesed, and the 
> cache-miss count decreased.
> 
> Btw., a 'perf stat' suggestion: you can also make use of built-in 
> error bars via repeating parallel_pagefault N times:
> 
>   aldebaran:~> perf stat --repeat 3 /bin/ls

Ingo, with the repeat experiements I see

7192354.545647  task-clock-msecs         #     23.955 CPUs    ( +- 0.002% )
         425627  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec  ( +- 0.333% )
            155  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec  ( +- 10.897% )
       95336481  page-faults              #      0.013 M/sec  ( +- 0.085% )
  5951929070187  cycles                   #    827.536 M/sec  ( +- 0.009% )
  1058312583796  instructions             #      0.178 IPC    ( +- 0.076% )
     9616609083  cache-references         #      1.337 M/sec  ( +- 2.536% )
     1952367514  cache-misses             #      0.271 M/sec  ( +- 0.156% )

  300.246532761  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.002% )

Except for the CPU migrations and the cache references, all the other
parameters seem to be well within an acceptable error range.


-- 
	Balbir

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13  6:55 [PATCH][mmotm] " Balbir Singh
2009-08-13  7:26 ` Daisuke Nishimura
2009-08-13  8:02   ` [UPDATED][PATCH][mmotm] " Balbir Singh
2009-08-13  8:35     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-13  8:43       ` Balbir Singh
2009-08-14  2:01       ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2009-08-15 14:26         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-13 11:12     ` Daisuke Nishimura

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