Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu] Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU

[Dave Hansen]

On 06/23/2014 09:55 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> This still has a regression.  Commit 1ed70de (from Paul's git tree),
> gets a result of 52231880.  If I back up two commits to v3.16-rc1 and
> revert ac1bea85 (the original culprit) the result goes back up to 57308512.
> 
> So something is still going on here.
> 
> I'll go back and compare the grace period ages to see if I can tell what
> is going on.

RCU_TRACE interferes with the benchmark a little bit, and it lowers the
delta that the regression causes.  So, evaluate this cautiously.

According to rcu_sched/rcugp, the average "age" is:

v3.16-rc1, with ac1bea85 reverted:	10.7
v3.16-rc1, plus e552592e:		 6.1

Paul, have you been keeping an eye on rcugp?  Even if I run my system
with only 10 threads, I still see this basic pattern where the average
"age" is lower when I see lower performance.  It seems to be a
reasonable proxy that could be used instead of waiting on me to re-run
tests.


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