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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 12:26:54 EST


On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:55 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> ïComparing with kernel 2.6.25, sysbench+mysql(oltp, readonly) has many
> regression with 2.6.26-rc1.
>
> 1) 8-core stoakley: 28%;
> 2) 16-core tigerton: 20%;
> 3) Itanium Montvale: 50%.
>
> Bisect located below patch.
>
> 8f1bc385cfbab474db6c27b5af1e439614f3025c is first bad commit
> commit 8f1bc385cfbab474db6c27b5af1e439614f3025c
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat Apr 19 19:45:00 2008 +0200
>
> sched: fair: weight calculations
>
> In order to level the hierarchy, we need to calculate load based on the
> root view. That is, each task's load is in the same unit.
>
>
>
> After I manually reverted the patch against 2.6.26-rc1 while fixing a couple of
> conflictions/errors, sysbench oltp regression became less than 3% on 8-core
> stoakley.

Does this patch help?

---
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Subject: sched: fix weight calculations

The conversion between virtual and real time is as follows:

dvt = rw/w * dt <=> dt = w/rw * dvt

Since we want the fair sleeper granularity to be in real time, we actually
need to do:

dvt = - rw/w * l

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched_fair.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-2/kernel/sched_fair.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-2.orig/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ linux-2.6-2/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -662,10 +662,15 @@ place_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, stru
if (!initial) {
/* sleeps upto a single latency don't count. */
if (sched_feat(NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS)) {
+ unsigned long thresh = sysctl_sched_latency;
+
+ /*
+ * convert the sleeper threshold into virtual time
+ */
if (sched_feat(NORMALIZED_SLEEPER))
- vruntime -= calc_delta_weight(sysctl_sched_latency, se);
- else
- vruntime -= sysctl_sched_latency;
+ thresh = calc_delta_fair(thresh, se);
+
+ vruntime -= thresh;
}

/* ensure we never gain time by being placed backwards. */


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