Re: volanoMark regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1

From: Dhaval Giani
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 01:34:59 EST


On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:20:12PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:34 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:17 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Comparing with 2.6.25, volanoMark has big regression with kernel
> > > > 2.6.26-rc1. It's about 50% on my 8-core stoakley, 16-core tigerton,
> > > > and Itanium Montecito.
> > > >
> > > > With bisect, I located below patch.
> > >
> > > thanks Yanmin, i've queued up your patch that reverts this change.
> >
> > Is this really needed now that GROUP_SCHED defaults to 'n' ?
> >
> > Yanmin, this is with GROUP_SCHED=y, right or is this without?
> With GROUP_SCHED=y.
>
> I remember a similiar patch was merged into 2.6.25-rc1 and I found the similiar volanoMark
> regression, then you reverted it. Why to add it back to 2.6.26-rc1?
>

The implementation has been changed extensively. As of now, without
proper load balancing, group scheduling is not yet fully fair, but such a
performance regression is serious, and we need to figure out why the
regression is taking place.

--
regards,
Dhaval
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