Re: [performance bug] kernel building regression on 64 LCPUs machine

From: Corrado Zoccolo
Date: Sat Feb 26 2011 - 09:45:27 EST


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 23-02-11 16:24:47, Alex,Shi wrote:
>> Though these patches can not totally recovered the problem, but they are
>> quite helpful with ccache enabled situation. It increase 10% performance
>> on 38-rc1 kernel.
> ÂOK and what was the original performance drop with WRITE_SYNC change?
>
>> I have tried to enabled they to latest rc6 kernel but failed. the vmstat output is here:
>> with patches:
> ÂI'm attaching patches rebased on top of latest Linus's tree.
> Corrado, could you possibly run your fsync-heavy tests so that we see
> whether there isn't negative impact of my patches on your fsync-heavy
> workload? Thanks.
The workload was actually Jeff's, and the stalls that my change tried
to mitigate showed up on his enterprise class storage. Adding him so
he can test it.

Corrado
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂHonza
> --
> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> SUSE Labs, CR
>



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