Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset

[Peter Oskolkov]

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:44 AM Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 11:36 AM Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> As indicated earlier in the FUTEX_SWAP patchset:
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>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200722234538.166697-1-posk@xxxxxxx/
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> Hi Peter,
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> Do you have benchmark results? How fast is it compared with futex_swap and the google switchto?

Hi Andrei,

I did not run benchmarks on the same machine/kernel, but umcg_swap
between "core" tasks (your use case for gVisor) should be somewhat
faster than futex_swap, as there is no reading from the userspace and
no futex hash lookup/dequeue ops; umcg_swap should be slower than
switchto_switch because umcg_swap does go through ttwu+schedule, which
switchto_switch bypasses.

I expect that if UMCG is merged in a form similar to what I posted, we
will explore how to make UMCG context switches faster in later
patches.

Thanks,
Peter

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> Thanks,
> Andrei