Re: [revert] mysql+oltp regression

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 07:43:46 EST



* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> During regression testing of tip/sched/clock fixes, a regression in
> low client count throughput turned up, which I traced this back to the
> commit below. I don't see anything wrong with it, but suspect that it
> is preventing client/server pairs from staying together on the same
> CPU as buddies, which mysql definitely likes quite a lot. (I suspect
> that this is the case, because I've seen this same performance curve
> while tinkering with wakeup affinity and breaking it all to pieces;)
>
> Changelog and test results below in case nobody sees a problem with
> the commit itself.

i've applied your fix to tip/sched/urgent for the time being, thanks
Mike for tracking it down. We can re-try newer iterations of Greg's
patch in tip/sched/devel.

Ingo
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