Re: BFS vs. mainline scheduler benchmarks and measurements

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Sep 10 2009 - 05:59:46 EST



* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 09 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > At least in my tests these latencies were mainly due to a bug in
> > latt.c - i've attached the fixed version.
>
> What bug? I don't see any functional change between the version
> you attach and the current one.

Here's the diff of what i fixed yesterday over the last latt.c
version i found in this thread. The poll() thing is the significant
one.

Ingo

--- latt.c.orig
+++ latt.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static unsigned int verbose;
struct stats
{
double n, mean, M2, max;
+ int max_pid;
};

static void update_stats(struct stats *stats, unsigned long long val)
@@ -85,22 +86,6 @@ static double stddev_stats(struct stats
return sqrt(variance);
}

-/*
- * The std dev of the mean is related to the std dev by:
- *
- * s
- * s_mean = -------
- * sqrt(n)
- *
- */
-static double stddev_mean_stats(struct stats *stats)
-{
- double variance = stats->M2 / (stats->n - 1);
- double variance_mean = variance / stats->n;
-
- return sqrt(variance_mean);
-}
-
struct stats delay_stats;

static int pipes[MAX_CLIENTS*2][2];
@@ -212,7 +197,7 @@ static unsigned long usec_since(struct t
static void log_delay(unsigned long delay)
{
if (verbose) {
- fprintf(stderr, "log delay %8lu usec\n", delay);
+ fprintf(stderr, "log delay %8lu usec (pid %d)\n", delay, getpid());
fflush(stderr);
}

@@ -300,7 +285,7 @@ static int __write_ts(int i, struct time
return write(fd, ts, sizeof(*ts)) != sizeof(*ts);
}

-static long __read_ts(int i, struct timespec *ts)
+static long __read_ts(int i, struct timespec *ts, pid_t *cpids)
{
int fd = pipes[2*i+1][0];
struct timespec t;
@@ -309,11 +294,14 @@ static long __read_ts(int i, struct time
return -1;

log_delay(usec_since(ts, &t));
+ if (verbose)
+ fprintf(stderr, "got delay %ld from child %d [pid %d]\n", usec_since(ts, &t), i, cpids[i]);

return 0;
}

-static int read_ts(struct pollfd *pfd, unsigned int nr, struct timespec *ts)
+static int read_ts(struct pollfd *pfd, unsigned int nr, struct timespec *ts,
+ pid_t *cpids)
{
unsigned int i;

@@ -322,7 +310,7 @@ static int read_ts(struct pollfd *pfd, u
return -1L;
if (pfd[i].revents & POLLIN) {
pfd[i].events = 0;
- if (__read_ts(i, &ts[i]))
+ if (__read_ts(i, &ts[i], cpids))
return -1L;
nr--;
}
@@ -368,7 +356,6 @@ static void run_parent(pid_t *cpids)
srand(1234);

do {
- unsigned long delay;
unsigned pending_events;

do_rand_sleep();
@@ -404,17 +391,17 @@ static void run_parent(pid_t *cpids)
*/
pending_events = clients;
while (pending_events) {
- int evts = poll(ipfd, clients, 0);
+ int evts = poll(ipfd, clients, -1);

if (evts < 0) {
do_exit = 1;
break;
} else if (!evts) {
- /* printf("bugger2\n"); */
+ printf("bugger2\n");
continue;
}

- if (read_ts(ipfd, evts, t1)) {
+ if (read_ts(ipfd, evts, t1, cpids)) {
do_exit = 1;
break;
}
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