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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, torvalds@osdl.org, hugh@veritas.com,
	piggin@cyberone.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: pagefault scalability patches
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:09:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508180904440.25799@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050817174720.47ac351f.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Patched:
> > 
> >  Gb Rep Threads   User      System     Wall flt/cpu/s fault/wsec
> >  16   3    1    0.859s     64.994s  65.084s 47768.542  47771.664
> 
> Versus:
> 
> > Unpatched:
> >
> >  Gb Rep Threads   User      System     Wall flt/cpu/s fault/wsec
> >  16   3    1    0.757s     62.772s  63.052s 49515.393  49522.112
> 
> It got slower?

For that sample yes. There is a certain unpredictability coming with NUMA 
systems. Memory placement affects the tests. This in the margin of error.

Another test shows just the opposite:

unpatched:
 Gb Rep Threads   User      System     Wall flt/cpu/s fault/wsec
 16   3    1    0.735s     64.074s  64.083s 48537.993  48519.120
 16   3    2    0.773s     94.774s  49.046s 32923.047  63588.898
 16   3    4    0.717s     87.110s  29.092s 35816.846 105117.121
 16   3    8    0.677s    136.768s  21.069s 22886.951 145008.228
 16   3   16    0.757s    288.464s  23.045s 10876.524 134128.797
 16   3   32   13.612s    297.150s  23.034s 10122.600 134723.354
 16   3   64   60.201s    318.414s  27.048s  8308.505 114470.017
 16   3  128  279.422s    322.942s  41.063s  5222.299  75562.812
 16   3  256  280.823s    146.732s  28.073s  7357.466 109486.455
 16   3  512  282.124s     77.636s  24.023s  8743.940 129787.460

patched:

 Gb Rep Threads   User      System     Wall flt/cpu/s fault/wsec
 16   3    1    0.702s     62.858s  63.056s 49491.809  49489.633
 16   3    2    0.734s     72.348s  38.004s 43043.199  82674.132
 16   3    4    0.718s     76.552s  25.012s 40710.056 125186.047
 16   3    8    0.782s     58.417s  12.020s 53137.972 257740.814
 16   3   16    1.534s     93.568s   9.092s 33077.207 316995.454
 16   3   32    3.297s    173.145s   9.078s 17828.534 321373.156
 16   3   64    9.001s    445.874s  11.064s  6915.569 270213.663
 16   3  128   27.157s   1500.321s  16.060s  2059.426 189481.849
 16   3  256   25.647s    762.183s   8.083s  3992.895 355973.645
 16   3  512   26.167s    407.595s   5.008s  7252.183 619054.581

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-18 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-17 22:17 Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 22:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 22:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 22:51   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:01     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 23:12       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17 23:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:30         ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 23:33           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-17 23:44             ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-17 23:52               ` Peter Chubb
2005-08-17 23:58                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-18  0:47                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 16:09                     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2005-08-22  2:13     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-18  0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-18 16:04   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-18 20:16   ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-19  1:22     ` [PATCH] use mm_counter macros for nr_pte since its also under ptl Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  3:17       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  3:51         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  1:33     ` pagefault scalability patches Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  3:53     ` [RFC] Concept for delayed counter updates in mm_struct Christoph Lameter
2005-08-19  4:29       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-19  4:34         ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-19  4:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-19 16:06           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:33           ` [PATCH] mm_struct counter deltas in task_struct Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:35           ` [PATCH] Use deltas to replace atomic inc Christoph Lameter
2005-08-20  7:58             ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22  3:32               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  3:48                 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-22  4:06                   ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  4:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-22 13:23                       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 14:22                         ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 15:24                           ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 15:43                             ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-22 16:24                               ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 20:30                           ` [PATCH] mm_struct counter deltas V2 Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22 20:31                           ` [PATCH] Use deltas to replace atomic inc V2 Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  2:09   ` pagefault scalability patches Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-18  2:00 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-18  8:38   ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-18 16:17     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-22  2:04       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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