Re: TREE_SRCU slows hotplug by factor ~16

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Apr 24 2017 - 01:25:00 EST


On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 20:32 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 04:48:09AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Running Steven's hotplug stress script in tip w. CLASSIC_SRCU takes 55s
> > in my i4790 box, whereas TREE_SRCU takes over 16m. (Master with the
> > same config does it in 39s.. but then lockdep isn't enabled in master)
>
> That doesn't sound good...
>
> But exactly which version are you using? There were some 8x slowdowns
> earlier this week that have since been fixed. Also, how many CPUs are
> on your system?

4 cores+SMT, tip.yesterday_afternoon (precise!) was initial test point,
tip.this_morning (v4.11-rc7-955-g76f8909e1cd8) is still slow.

-Mike