Re: Kernel 4.7rc3 - Performance drop 30-40% for SPECjbb2005 and SPECjvm2008 benchmarks against 4.6 kernel

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:41:06PM +0200, Jirka Hladky wrote:
> This commit is bad:
> 2159197 - Peter Zijlstra, 8 weeks ago : sched/core: Enable increased
> load resolution on 64-bit kernels
> 
> Could you please have a look?

Yes, that is indeed the culprit.

The below 'revert' makes it go fast again. I'll try and figure out
what's wrong tomorrow.

---

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index bf6fea9..e7e312b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static inline void cpu_load_update_active(struct rq *this_rq) { }
  * Really only required when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is also set, but to
  * increase coverage and consistency always enable it on 64bit platforms.
  */
-#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+#if 0 // def CONFIG_64BIT
 # define NICE_0_LOAD_SHIFT	(SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT + SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
 # define scale_load(w)		((w) << SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)
 # define scale_load_down(w)	((w) >> SCHED_FIXEDPOINT_SHIFT)