Re: [ANNOUNCE] BLD-3.17 release.

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Oct 13 2014 - 04:01:49 EST


On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 12:20 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> BLD (The Barbershop Load Distribution Algorithm) patch for Linux 3.17

I had a curiosity attack, played with it a little.

My little Q6600 box could be describes as being "micro-numa", with two
pathetic little "nodes" connected by the worst interconnect this side of
tin cans and string. Communicating tasks sorely missed sharing cache.

tbench
3.18.0-master
Throughput 287.411 MB/sec 1 clients 1 procs max_latency=1.614 ms 1.000
Throughput 568.631 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=1.942 ms 1.000
Throughput 1069.75 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=18.494 ms 1.000
Throughput 1040.99 MB/sec 8 clients 8 procs max_latency=17.364 ms 1.000

3.18.0-master-BLD vs master
Throughput 261.986 MB/sec 1 clients 1 procs max_latency=11.943 ms .911
Throughput 264.461 MB/sec 2 clients 2 procs max_latency=11.884 ms .465
Throughput 476.191 MB/sec 4 clients 4 procs max_latency=11.497 ms .445
Throughput 558.236 MB/sec 8 clients 8 procs max_latency=9.008 ms .536


TCP_RR 4 unbound clients
3.18.0-master
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 30.00 72436.65
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 72438.55
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 72213.18
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 72493.48
sum 289581.86 1.000

3.18.0-master-BLD
TCP REQUEST/RESPONSE TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET
Local /Remote
Socket Size Request Resp. Elapsed Trans.
Send Recv Size Size Time Rate
bytes Bytes bytes bytes secs. per sec

16384 87380 1 1 30.00 29014.09
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 28804.53
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 28999.40
16384 87380 1 1 30.00 28901.84
sum 115719.86 .399 vs master


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