"Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> writes:
Ingo> this is the latest version of the mutex subsystem
Ingo> patch-queue. It consists of the following patches:
[snip]
Ingo> the patches are against Linus' latest tree, and were tested on
Ingo> i386, x86_64 and ia64. [the tests were also done in
Ingo> DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL mode, to make sure the code works
Ingo> fine. MUTEX_FULL support is not included in this patchqueue].
Hi,
I have been working with Ingo on porting this to ehe ia64 and run a
bunch of benchmarks using the DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL settings to see how it
behaves on various sized systems (8, 24 and 60 CPUs). In general I am
seeing speedups of roughly a factor 4 on XFS and 2.4 on TMPFS.
Below you will find the results. It's basically the same kernel
version with and without the mutex patch running in DEBUG_MUTEX_FULL
mode without debugging enabled. No other config options were changed.
I won't rule out any pilot errors, but at least it gives an idea about
the change in performance for a specific workload on different sized
boxes.