Re: [PATCH v2 10/12] Maintain preemptability count even for!CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Mon Nov 30 2009 - 05:56:51 EST


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:14:03AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:30:02AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > This adds significant overhead for the !PREEMPT case adding lots of code
> > > in critical paths all over the place.
> > I want to measure it. Can you suggest benchmarks to try?
>
> AIM9 (reaim9)?
Below are results for kernel 2.6.32-rc8 with and without the patch (only
this single patch is applied).

test name with (stddev) without (stddev)
===========================================================================
jmp_test 57853.762 ( 1086.51) 55664.287 ( 5152.14) 3.93%
stream_pipe 10286.967 ( 132.01) 11396.327 ( 306.01) -9.73%
new_raph 12573.395 ( 2.64) 12535.764 ( 85.14) 0.30%
sync_disk_rw 0.100 ( 0.00) 0.100 ( 0.00) -0.44%
udp_test 4008.058 ( 37.57) 3774.514 ( 22.03) 6.19%
add_long 68.542 ( 0.00) 68.530 ( 0.01) 0.02%
exec_test 181.615 ( 0.46) 184.503 ( 0.42) -1.57%
div_double 114.209 ( 0.02) 114.230 ( 0.03) -0.02%
mem_rtns_1 283.733 ( 3.27) 285.936 ( 2.24) -0.77%
sync_disk_cp 0.043 ( 0.00) 0.043 ( 0.00) 0.03%
fun_cal2 780.701 ( 0.16) 780.867 ( 0.07) -0.02%
matrix_rtns 70160.568 ( 28.58) 70181.900 ( 16.46) -0.03%
fun_cal1 780.701 ( 0.16) 780.763 ( 0.13) -0.01%
div_int 219.216 ( 0.03) 219.264 ( 0.04) -0.02%
pipe_cpy 16239.120 ( 468.99) 16727.067 ( 280.27) -2.92%
fifo_test 12864.276 ( 242.82) 13383.616 ( 199.31) -3.88%
sync_disk_wrt 0.043 ( 0.00) 0.043 ( 0.00) -0.11%
mul_long 4276.703 ( 0.79) 4277.528 ( 0.65) -0.02%
num_rtns_1 4308.165 ( 5.99) 4306.133 ( 5.84) 0.05%
disk_src 1507.993 ( 8.04) 1586.100 ( 5.44) -4.92%
mul_short 3422.840 ( 0.31) 3423.280 ( 0.24) -0.01%
series_1 121706.708 ( 266.62) 121356.355 ( 982.04) 0.29%
mul_int 4277.353 ( 0.45) 4277.953 ( 0.34) -0.01%
mul_float 99.947 ( 0.02) 99.947 ( 0.02) -0.00%
link_test 2319.090 ( 12.51) 2466.564 ( 1.52) -5.98%
fun_cal15 380.836 ( 0.06) 380.876 ( 0.10) -0.01%
trig_rtns 163.416 ( 0.13) 163.185 ( 0.51) 0.14%
fun_cal 915.226 ( 4.56) 902.033 ( 1.44) 1.46%
misc_rtns_1 4285.322 ( 18.72) 4282.907 ( 27.07) 0.06%
brk_test 221.167 ( 8.98) 230.345 ( 7.98) -3.98%
add_float 133.242 ( 0.02) 133.249 ( 0.02) -0.01%
page_test 284.488 ( 3.71) 284.180 ( 13.91) 0.11%
div_long 85.364 ( 0.27) 85.222 ( 0.02) 0.17%
dir_rtns_1 207.953 ( 2.56) 212.532 ( 0.59) -2.15%
disk_cp 66.449 ( 0.43) 65.754 ( 0.61) 1.06%
sieve 23.538 ( 0.01) 23.599 ( 0.11) -0.26%
tcp_test 2085.428 ( 18.43) 2059.062 ( 5.52) 1.28%
disk_wrt 81.839 ( 0.16) 82.652 ( 0.41) -0.98%
mul_double 79.951 ( 0.01) 79.961 ( 0.02) -0.01%
fork_test 57.408 ( 0.43) 57.835 ( 0.27) -0.74%
add_short 171.326 ( 0.03) 171.314 ( 0.01) 0.01%
creat-clo 395.995 ( 3.63) 403.918 ( 2.74) -1.96%
sort_rtns_1 276.833 ( 31.80) 290.855 ( 0.46) -4.82%
add_int 79.961 ( 0.02) 79.967 ( 0.00) -0.01%
disk_rr 67.635 ( 0.23) 68.282 ( 0.59) -0.95%
div_short 210.318 ( 0.04) 210.365 ( 0.05) -0.02%
disk_rw 57.041 ( 0.26) 57.470 ( 0.31) -0.75%
dgram_pipe 10088.191 ( 86.81) 9848.119 ( 406.33) 2.44%
shell_rtns_3 681.882 ( 3.30) 693.734 ( 2.67) -1.71%
shell_rtns_2 681.721 ( 3.24) 693.307 ( 2.90) -1.67%
shell_rtns_1 681.116 ( 3.46) 692.302 ( 3.16) -1.62%
div_float 114.224 ( 0.02) 114.230 ( 0.00) -0.01%
ram_copy 217812.436 ( 615.62) 218160.548 ( 135.66) -0.16%
shared_memory 11022.611 ( 20.75) 10870.031 ( 61.44) 1.40%
signal_test 700.907 ( 1.42) 711.253 ( 0.49) -1.46%
add_double 88.836 ( 0.00) 88.837 ( 0.00) -0.00%
array_rtns 119.369 ( 0.06) 119.182 ( 0.36) 0.16%
string_rtns 97.107 ( 0.21) 97.160 ( 0.22) -0.05%
disk_rd 626.890 ( 18.25) 586.034 ( 5.58) 6.97%

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Gleb.
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