Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:47:46 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] adaptive spinning mutexes |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> Linus, > > Please pull the adaptive-mutexes-for-linus git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git adaptive-mutexes-for-linus > > We dropped two fresh patches from v11 for the time being: the two debug > patches, they had test failures [they triggered mutex debugging false > positives]. > > So this tree is v10 (which got a lot of testing already) plus Chris's > performance patch. It passes all x86 runtime tests here.
Latest performance figures, on a 2-socket 16-way Nehalem test-system, running the code above, measured via "test-mutex V 128 10" VFS creat+unlink scalability test on tmpfs and ext3:
no-spin spin
[tmpfs] avg ops/sec: 291038 392865 (+34.9%) [ext3] avg ops/sec: 283291 435674 (+53.7%)
Those numbers impress the heck out of me, rarely do we have such kind of speedups these days, for any established functionality.
We still have the /sys/debug/sched_features tunable under CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y, so should this cause any performance regressions somewhere, it can be pinned down and blamed back on this change easily, without bisection and without rebooting the box.
Ingo
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