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SubjectRe: DBT3-pgsql large performance improvement 2.6.6-rc1
Mary Edie Meredith <maryedie@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Performance in DBT-3 (using PostgreSQL) has vastly
> improved for _both in the "power" portion (single
> process/query) and in the "throughput" portion of
> the test (when the test is running multiple processes)
> on our 4-way(4GB) and 8-way(8GB) STP systems as
> compared 2.6.5 kernel results.
>
> Using the default DBT-3 options (ie using LVM, ext2,
> PostgreSQL version 7.4.1)
>
> Note: Bigger numbers are better.
>
> Kernel....Runid..CPUs.Power..%incP.Thruput %incT
> 2.6.5 291308 4 97.08 base 120.46 base
> 2.6.6-rc1 291876 4 146.11 50.5% 222.94 85.1%
>
> Kernel....Runid..CPUs.Power..%incP..Thruput %incT
> 2.6.5 291346 8 101.08 base 138.95 base
> 2.6.6-rc1 291915 8 151.69 50.1% 273.69 97.0%
>
> So the improvement is between 50% and 97%!

How odd.

> Profile 2.6.5 8way throughput phase:
> http://khack.osdl.org/stp/291346/profile/after_throughput_test_1-tick.sort
> Profile 2.6.6-r1 8way throughput phase:
> http://khack.osdl.org/stp/291915/profile/after_throughput_test_1-tick.sort

Odder. do_anonymous_page() is doing 10x more work in 2.6.6-rc1. And the
CPU scheduler cost has fallen a lot.

Frankly, I can't think of anything in 2.6.6-rc1 which would cause either of
these things!

> What I notice is that radix_tree_lookup is in
> the top 20 in the 2.6.5 profile, but not in
> 2.6.6-rc1. Could theradix tree changes be
> responsible for this?

I would certainly expect 2x or even higher throughput increases from either
the writeback changes or the ext2&ext3 fsync changes.

> DBT-3 is a read mostly DSS workload and the throughput
> phase is where we run multiple query streams (as
> many as we have CPUs). In this workload, the database
> is stored on a file system, but it is small relative
> to the amount of memory (4GB and 8GB). It almost
> completely caches in page cache early on. So there
> is some physical IO in the first few minutes, but very
> little to none in the remainder.

But you're not doing a significant amount of writing during the test, so
scrub that theory.

Do you have full reports anywhere? I'd be interested in seeing a vmstat
trace from the entire run, both 2.6.5 and 2.6.6-rc1.

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