Re: [PATCH v3] sched/fair: Add advisory flag for borrowing a timeslice

[Khalid Aziz]

On 11/25/2014 11:27 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 07:45 -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> > This solution has been used by both database and java on other OSs and
> > has shown performance improvement. Andrew had asked for performance
> > numbers on Linux with this patch last time I sent this out and it took
> > me a while to get performance folks to run a full TPC-C workload. They
> > did see a 3% improvement in tpcc as I noted in commit log and that is a
> > significant improvement.
>
> 3% for such a change seems pretty worthless... I would have expected
> this having to impact performance much more.

Performance impact will depend upon how big a bottleneck the spinlock 
was creating and how severe the resulting convoy problem was. Database 
guys try to squeeze every bit out of the system and 3% is considered to 
be very good gain. 10% gain would have been nicer :)

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Khalid
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