Re: hackbench regression with kernel 2.6.32-rc1

From: Zhang, Yanmin
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 20:50:41 EST


On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 15:22 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 17:29 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > -Mike
> > I'm investigating 5% tbench regression on Nehalem machine. perf_counter shows
> > select_task_rq_fair consumes about 5% cpu time with 2.6.32-rc1 while it consumes
> > less than 0.5% with 2.6.31.
> >
> > Patch c88d5910890 has comments to explain it, but I still can't understand why
> > to add complicated balance logic when selecting task rq.
> >
> > I will check which section in function ïselect_task_rq_fair consumes so much time.
>
> Turn off SD_WAKE_BALANCE as it was called in rc1. See commit 182a85f.
I run testing against 2.6.32-rc1 which already includes the patch.


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