Re: AIM7 40% regression with 2.6.26-rc1

[Zhang, Yanmin]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:43 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Here's a trial balloon patch to do that.
> > > 
> > > Yanmin - this is not well tested, but the code is fairly obvious, 
> > > and it would be interesting to hear if this fixes the performance 
> > > regression. Because if it doesn't, then it's not the BKL, or 
> > > something totally different is going on.
> >
> > Congratulations! The patch really fixes the regression completely! 
> > vmstat showed cpu idle is 0%, just like 2.6.25's.
> 
> great! Yanmin, could you please also check the other patch i sent (also 
> attached below), does it solve the regression similarly?
With your patch, aim7 regression becomes less than 2%. I ran the testing twice.

Linus' patch could recover it completely. As aim7 result is quite stable(usually
fluctuating less than 1%), 1.5%~2% is a little big.

> 
> 	Ingo
> 
> ---
>  lib/kernel_lock.c |    9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: linux/lib/kernel_lock.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/lib/kernel_lock.c
> +++ linux/lib/kernel_lock.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ int __lockfunc __reacquire_kernel_lock(v
>  	task->lock_depth = -1;
>  	preempt_enable_no_resched();
>  
> -	down(&kernel_sem);
> +	while (down_trylock(&kernel_sem))
> +		cpu_relax();
>  
>  	preempt_disable();
>  	task->lock_depth = saved_lock_depth;
> @@ -67,11 +68,13 @@ void __lockfunc lock_kernel(void)
>  	struct task_struct *task = current;
>  	int depth = task->lock_depth + 1;
>  
> -	if (likely(!depth))
> +	if (likely(!depth)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * No recursion worries - we set up lock_depth _after_
>  		 */
> -		down(&kernel_sem);
> +		while (down_trylock(&kernel_sem))
> +			cpu_relax();
> +	}
>  
>  	task->lock_depth = depth;
>  }

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