Re: sysbench+mysql(oltp, readonly) 30% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 05:15:29 EST



On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:01 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:00 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > Hm. I was doing some sysbench+postgress(oltp, ro) testing on my little
> > Q6600 box this morning, and saw a different picture.

> How many cpu are in the Q6600?

1.

> >
> > In attached pdf, .bkl refers to Linus' BKL patch, .weight is the weight
> > fix, both are applied to git.today. The script I used is also attached.
> With my 8-core stoakley (using mysql):
> 1) 2.6.25:
> Number of threads: 6
> read/write requests: 8025024 (66874.53 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 8
> read/write requests: 9132816 (76106.14 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 10
> read/write requests: 9244998 (77040.75 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 12
> read/write requests: 8994174 (74950.36 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 14
> read/write requests: 9051322 (75426.54 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 16
> read/write requests: 9015412 (75126.93 per sec.)
>
> 2) 2.6.26-rc1:
> Number of threads: 6
> read/write requests: 5754056 (47949.87 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 8
> read/write requests: 6528480 (54403.29 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 10
> read/write requests: 6444690 (53705.16 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 12
> read/write requests: 6544258 (54534.23 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 14
> read/write requests: 6796650 (56637.65 per sec.)
> Number of threads: 16
> read/write requests: 6718110 (55983.18 per sec.)
>
> 3) 2.6.26-rc1+weight
> ïNumber of threads: 16
> read/write requests: 3219076 (26824.22 per sec.)
>
> I'm not sure if more cpu could introduce more contention in this test.

-rc1. Do you have the fix below applied?

commit a992241de614dd2b7c97a9ba64e28c0e563f19bf
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 5 23:56:17 2008 +0200

sched: fix normalized sleeper

Normalized sleeper uses calc_delta*() which requires that the rq load is
already updated, so move account_entity_enqueue() before place_entity()

Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 89fa32b..1295ddc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int wakeup)
* Update run-time statistics of the 'current'.
*/
update_curr(cfs_rq);
+ account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);

if (wakeup) {
place_entity(cfs_rq, se, 0);
@@ -692,7 +693,6 @@ enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int wakeup)
check_spread(cfs_rq, se);
if (se != cfs_rq->curr)
__enqueue_entity(cfs_rq, se);
- account_entity_enqueue(cfs_rq, se);
}

static void update_avg(u64 *avg, u64 sample)


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