Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:13:40 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: Scalability requirements for sysv ipc |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:33:24PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Nadia Derbey wrote: > >Manfred Spraul wrote: > >> > >>A microbenchmark on a single-cpu system doesn't help much (except > >>that 2.6.25 is around factor 2 slower for sysv msg ping-pong between > >>two tasks compared to the numbers I remember from older kernels....) > > > >If I remember well, at that time I had used ctxbench and I wrote some > >other small scripts. > >And the results I had were around 2 or 3% slowdown, but I have to > >confirm that by checking in my archives. > > > Do you have access to multi-core systems? The "best case" for the rcu > code would be > - 8 or 16 cores > - one instance of ctxbench running on each core, bound to that core. > > I'd expect a significant slowdown. The big question is if it matters.
I could give it a spin -- though I would need to be pointed to the patch and the test.
Thanx, Paul
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