Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Cleanup and optimise the page allocator V2

[Pekka Enberg]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:03 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:10:27PM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > We tested this v2 patch series with 2.6.29-rc6 on different machines.
> > 
> 
> Wonderful, thanks.
> 
> > 		4P qual-core	2P qual-core	2P qual-core HT
> > 		tigerton	stockley	Nehalem
> > 		------------------------------------------------
> > tbench		+3%		+2%		0%
> 
> Nice.
> 
> > oltp		-2%		0%		0%
> 
> This is a big disappointment and somewhat confusing that it is so
> severe. For sysbench I was seeing on six different machines;
> 
> 	50834.14        51763.08    1.79%
> 	61852.08        61966.58    0.18%
> 	5935.98         5980.06     0.74%
> 	29227.78        30167.72    3.12%
> 	66702.67        66534.76   -0.25%
> 	26643.18        26542.59   -0.38%
> 
> So, two smallish regressions but mainly gains. Then again, I'm becoming
> more and more convinced that sysbench doesn't really represent a proper
> OLTP workload.
> 
> I'd like to understand more how the page allocator at least was being used
> during your tests. Would it be possible to get a full profile (including
> instruction if possible and the vmlinux file) for both kernels please?
> 
> If you can get the profiles, confirm the regression is still there as
> sometimes profiling can alter the outcome. Even if this happens, the
> profile will tell me where time is being spent.
> 
> > aim7		0%		0%		0%
> > specjbb2005	+3%		0%		0%
> > hackbench	0%		0%		0%	
> > 
> > netperf:
> > TCP-S-112k	0%		-1%		0%
> > TCP-S-64k	0%		-1%		+1%
> > TCP-RR-1	0%		0%		+1%
> > UDP-U-4k	-2%		0%		-2%
> 
> Pekka, for this test was SLUB or the page allocator handling the 4K
> allocations?

The page allocator. The pass-through revert is not in 2.6.29-rc6 and I
won't be sending it until 2.6.30 opens up.

> 
> > UDP-U-1k	+3%		0%		0%
> > UDP-RR-1	0%		0%		0%
> > UDP-RR-512	-1%		0%		+1%
> > 
> > Lin Ming
> > 
> 
> Thanks a million for testing.
> 

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