Re: [PATCH 2.6.28 1/2] memory: improve find_vma

[Daniel Lowengrub]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Daniel Lowengrub <lowdanie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> * Daniel Lowengrub <lowdanie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Simple syscall: 0.7419 / 0.4244 microseconds
>>> Simple read: 1.2071 / 0.7270 microseconds
>>
>>there must be a significant measurement mistake here: none of your patches
>>affect the 'simple syscall' path, nor the sys_read() path.
>>
>>        Ingo
> I ran the tests again, this time I ran them twice on each system and
> calculated the average, the differences between results on the same os
> were very small - I guess this means that the results were accurate.
> I also made sure that no other programs were running during the tests.
>  Here're the new results using the same format of
> test : standard kernel / kernel after patch
>
> Simple syscall: 0.26080 / 0.24935 microseconds
> Simple read: 0.42580 / 0.43080 microseconds
> Simple write: 0.36695 / 0.34565 microseconds
> Simple stat: 2.71205 / 2.37415 microseconds
> Simple fstat: 0.74955 / 0.66450 microseconds
> Simple open/close: 3.95465 / 3.35740 microseconds
> Select on 10 fd's: 0.74590 / 0.79510 microseconds
> Select on 100 fd's: 2.97720 / 3.03445 microseconds
> Select on 250 fd's: 6.51940 / 6.58265 microseconds
> Select on 500 fd's: 12.56530 / 12.63580 microseconds
> Signal handler installation: 0.63005 / 0.65285 microseconds
> Signal handler overhead: 2.30350 / 2.24475 microseconds
> Protection fault: 0.41750 / 0.42705 microseconds
> Pipe latency: 6.04580 / 5.61270 microseconds
> AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 9.00595 / 8.65615 microseconds
> Process fork+exit: 130.57580 / 122.26665 microseconds
> Process fork+execve: 491.81820 / 460.79490 microseconds
> Process fork+/bin/sh -c: 2173.16665 / 2088.50000 microseconds
> File /home/daniel/tmp/XXX write bandwidth: 23814.50000 / 23298.50000 KB/sec
> Pagefaults on /home/daniel/tmp/XXX: 1.22625 / 1.17470 microseconds
>
> "mappings
> 0.5242880 6.91 / 7.11
> 1.0485760 12.00 / 10.42
> 2.0971520 20.00 / 17.50
> 4.1943040 36.00 / 33.00
> 8.3886080 70.50 / 61.00
> 16.7772160 121.00 / 114.50
> 33.5544320 237.50 / 217.50
> 67.1088640 472.50 / 427.50
> 134.2177280 947.00 / 846.00
> 268.4354560 1891.00 / 1694.00
> 536.8709120 3786.00 / 3362.00
> 1073.7418240 8252.00 / 7357.00
>
> As you expected, now there isn't a significant difference in the syscalls.
> The summery of the tests where 2.6.28D.1 is the kernel after the patch
> and 2.6.28D is the standard kernel is:
>
> Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Host                 OS    Mhz null null      open slct sig  sig  fork exec sh
>                               call  I/O stat clos TCP  inst hndl proc proc proc
> --------- --------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
> localhost Linux 2.6.28D   1678 0.26 0.40 2.71 4.02 5.61 0.63 2.30 129. 494. 2172
> localhost Linux 2.6.28D   1678 0.26 0.40 2.71 3.89 5.61 0.63 2.31 131. 489. 2174
> localhost Linux 2.6.28D.1 1678 0.25 0.39 2.38 3.34 5.70 0.65 2.24 122. 457. 2083
> localhost Linux 2.6.28D.1 1678 0.25 0.39 2.37 3.37 5.68 0.65 2.25 122. 463. 2094
>
> What do you think?  Are there other tests you'd like me to run?
> Daniel
>
Do you think that this patch is useful?  Should I keep working on the idea?
Thanks
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