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

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Apr 10 2014 - 10:33:11 EST


On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:28:43 +0200
Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 :-/

Actually that at least means it didn't cause any regressions for you.

-- Steve
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