Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

From: Jie Chen
Date: Tue Dec 11 2007 - 17:11:34 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jie Chen <chen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

The following is pthread_sync output for 2.6.21.7-cfs-v24 #1 SMP kernel.

2 threads:

PARALLEL time = 11.106580 microseconds +/- 0.002460
PARALLEL overhead = 0.617590 microseconds +/- 0.003409

Output for Kernel 2.6.24-rc4 #1 SMP

PARALLEL time = 19.668450 microseconds +/- 0.015782
PARALLEL overhead = 9.157945 microseconds +/- 0.018217

ok, so the problem is that this PARALLEL time has an additional +9 usecs overhead, right? I dont see this myself on a Core2 CPU:

PARALLEL time = 10.446933 microseconds +/- 0.078849
PARALLEL overhead = 0.751732 microseconds +/- 0.177446

Ingo
Hi, Ingo:

Yes, the extra 9 usecs overhead for running two threads in the 2.6.24 kernel when there are total of 8 cores (2 quad opterons). What is the total number of cores do you have? I do not have machines that have dual quad Xeons here for direct comparisons. Thank you.

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