Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:22:29 +0530 | | From | Balbir Singh <> | | Subject | Re: [-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v8) | |
Paul Menage wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > How long does the test run for? How many threads does each client have?
>>
>> The test on each client side runs for about 10 seconds. I saw the client create
>> up to 411 threads.
>>
>
> I'm not convinced that an application that creates 400 threads and
> exits in 10 seconds is particular representative of a high-performance
> application.
>
I agree, but like I said earlier, this was the easily available ready made
application I found. Do you know of any other highly threaded micro benchmark?
> But I agree that it's an example of something it may be worth trying
> to optimize for.
>
> You mention that you saw tgid exits - what order did the individual
> threads exit in? If we threw the mm to the last thread in the thread
> group rather than the first, would that help?
The order was different each time. I suspect that when we have too many threads
all exiting at once and they are all running in parallel, I don't know if we can
have ordering or predict the order in which threads exit.
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Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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