Re: SLUB performance regression vs SLAB

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> So, on "a well-known OLTP benchmark which prohibits publishing absolute
> numbers" and on an x86-64 system (I don't think exactly which model
> is important), we're seeing *6.51%* performance loss on slub vs slab.
> This is with a 2.6.23-rc3 kernel.  Tuning the boot parameters, as you've
> asked for before (slub_min_order=2, slub_max_order=4, slub_min_objects=8)
> gets back 0.38% of that.  It's still down 6.13% over slab.

Yeah the fastpath vs. slow path is not the issue as Siddha and I concluded 
earlier. Seems that we are mainly seeing cacheline bouncing due to two 
cpus accessing meta data in the same page struct. The patches in 
MM that are scheduled to be merged for .24 address that issue. I 
have repeatedly asked that these patches be tested. The patches were 
posted months ago.

> Now, where do we go next?  I suspect that 2.6.23-rc9 has significant
> changes since -rc3, but I'd like to confirm that before kicking off
> another (expensive) run.  Please, tell me what useful kernels are to test.

I thought Siddha has a test in the works with the per cpu structure 
patchset from MM? Could you sync up with Siddha?

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