Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: volanoMark regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1 | | From | "Zhang, Yanmin" <> | | Date | Thu, 08 May 2008 13:18:34 +0800 | |
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 23:03 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:22:07PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:06:30AM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > > Comparing with 2.6.25, volanoMark has big regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1.
> > > It's about 50% on my 8-core stoakley, 16-core tigerton, and Itanium Montecito.
> > >
> > > With bisect, I located below patch.
> > >
> > > 18d95a2832c1392a2d63227a7a6d433cb9f2037e is first bad commit
> > > commit 18d95a2832c1392a2d63227a7a6d433cb9f2037e
> > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > > Date: Sat Apr 19 19:45:00 2008 +0200
> > >
> > > sched: fair-group: SMP-nice for group scheduling
> > >
> > > Implement SMP nice support for the full group hierarchy.
> > >
> > > If I reverse the patch with resolving some conflictions, volanoMark result could
> > > be restored completely.
> > >
> >
> > ok, that's bad. Let's get vatsa and Ingo also involved.
> >
>
> Just to confirm, do you still have a performance regression with
> !group_sched?
I just tried it with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED=n a moment ago. The regression becomes less than 3%.
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