Re: [RFC PATCH RT] rwsem: The return of multi-reader PI rwsems

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Apr 10 2014 - 10:29:01 EST


On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 16:18 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 15:19 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > If you have any benchmark on large machines I would be very happy if
> > you could test this patch against the unpatched version of -rt.
>
> Too bad I don't have (and know how to use) specjbb.
>
> I dug up old vmark, thinking I'd be able to get some halfway useful
> relative numbers from it, but that was a waste of a day. The thing
> performs so badly on 40 core box that rt _beats_ nopreempt, and after 2
> nodes, you're going backward. 40 Westmere EX cores does a whopping ~2.5
> * dinky old Q6600 box throughput.

P.S. What I didn't see was any sign of a delta patched/unpatched..
which may mean nothing at all :-/

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