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SubjectRe: Locking comment on shrink_caches()
Dipankar Sarma wrote:
>
> In article <20010925.132816.52117370.davem@redhat.com> David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:24:21 -0300 (BRST)
> >
> > Or were you measuring loads which are mostly read-only ?
>
> > When Kanoj Sarcar was back at SGI testing 32 processor Origin
> > MIPS systems, pagecache_lock was at the top.
>
> John Hawkes from SGI had published some AIM7 numbers that showed
> pagecache_lock to be a bottleneck above 4 processors. At 32 processors,
> half the CPU cycles were spent on waiting for pagecache_lock. The
> thread is at -
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lse-tech&m=98459051027582&w=2
>

That's NUMA hardware. The per-hashqueue locking change made
a big improvement on that hardware. But when it was used on
Intel hardware it made no measurable difference at all.

Sorry, but the patch adds compexity and unless a significant
throughput benefit can be demonstrated on less exotic hardware,
why use it?

Here are kumon's test results from March, with and without
the hashed lock patch:



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Lse-tech] AIM7 scaling, pagecache_lock, multiqueue scheduler]
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:03:55 +0900
From: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
Reply-To: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
CC: kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp, ahirai@flab.fujitsu.co.jp,John Hawkes <hawkes@engr.sgi.com>,kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
References: <3AB032B3.87940521@uow.edu.au>,<3AB0089B.CF3496D2@uow.edu.au><200103150234.LAA28075@asami.proc><3AB032B3.87940521@uow.edu.au>

OK, the followings are a result of our brief measurement with WebBench
(mindcraft type) of 2.4.2 and 2.4.2+pcl .

Workload: WebBench 3.0 (static get)
Machine: Profusion 8way 550MHz/1MB cache 1GB mem.
Server: Apache 1.3.9-8 (w/ SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT)
obtained from RedHat.
Clients: 32 clients each has 2 requesting threads.

The following number is Request per sec.

242 242+pcl ratio
-------------------------------------
1SMP 1,603 1,584 0.99
2(1+1)SMP 2,443 2,437 1.00
4(1+3)SMP 4,420 4,426 1.00
8(4+4)SMP 5,381 5,400 1.00

#No idle time observed in the 1 to 4 SMP runs.
#Only 8 SMP cases shows cpu-idle time, but it is about 2.1-2.8% of the
#total CPU time.

Note: The load of two buses of Profusion system isn't balance, because
the number of CPUs on each bus is unbalance.

Summary:
From the above brief test, (+pcl) patch doens't show the measurable
performance gain.

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