From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Lorenzo Allegrucci <l_allegrucci@yahoo.it>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:41:30 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E2E38A.2010309@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E2E244.8040009@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>> Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
>>
>>> Hi lkml,
>>>
>>> according to the test below (sysbench) Linux seems to have scalability
>>> problems beyond 8 client threads:
>>> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/6268.html#cutid1
>>> http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/5705.html
>>> Hardware is an 8-core amd64 system and jeffr seems willing to try more
>>> Linux versions on that machine.
>>> Anyway, is there anyone who can reproduce this?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have reproduced it on a quad core test system.
>>
>> With 4 threads (on 4 cores) I get a high throughput, with
>> approximately 58% user time and 42% system time.
>>
>> With 8 threads (on 4 cores) I get way lower throughput,
>> with 37% user time, 29% system time 35% idle time!
>>
>> The maximum time taken per query also increases from
>> 0.0096s to 0.5273s. Ouch!
>>
>> I don't know if this is MySQL, glibc or Linux kernel,
>> but something strange is going on...
>
>
> Like you, I'm also seeing idle time start going up as threads increase.
>
> I initially thought this was a problem with the multiprocessor scheduler,
> because the pattern is exactly like some artificat in the load balancing.
"artificat"
Wow. I must need some sleep :) Please excuse any other typos!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 17:44 SMP performance degradation with sysbench Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-25 23:46 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-26 13:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-26 13:41 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-02-26 22:04 ` Pete Harlan
2007-02-26 22:36 ` Dave Jones
2007-02-27 0:32 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27 0:43 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 4:03 ` Hiro Yoshioka
2007-02-27 4:31 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 8:14 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-02-27 14:02 ` Rik van Riel
2007-02-27 14:56 ` Paulo Marques
2007-02-27 20:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-28 2:21 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 2:52 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-01 0:20 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-27 19:05 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-03-01 16:57 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2007-02-28 1:27 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-02-28 2:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-28 2:51 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-12 22:00 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-03-13 5:11 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 9:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 10:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 10:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 11:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 11:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-13 11:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-03-13 12:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-13 12:27 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-03-13 12:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-14 23:33 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-03-20 2:29 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-04-02 2:59 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2007-03-13 6:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14 0:36 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-14 1:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-03-14 1:09 ` Nish Aravamudan
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2007-02-28 0:20 ` Robert Hancock
2007-02-28 1:32 ` Hiro Yoshioka
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