Re: 20% performance drop on PostgreSQL 9.2 from kernel 3.5.3 to3.6-rc5 on AMD chipsets - bisected

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Just to confirm, if you turn off all preemption via a hack 
> > (basically if you turn SCHED_OTHER into SCHED_BATCH), does 
> > psql perform and scale much better, with the quality of 
> > sibling selection and spreading of processes only being a 
> > secondary effect?
> 
> That has always been the case here.  Preemption dominates.

Yes, so we get the best psql performance if we allow the central 
proxy process to dominate a single CPU (IIRC it can easily go up 
to 100% CPU utilization on that CPU - it is what determines max 
psql throughput), and not let any worker run there much, right?

> Others should play with it too, and let their boxen speak.

Do you have an easy-to-apply hack patch by chance that has the 
effect of turning off all such preemption, which people could 
try?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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