All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, X86 <x86@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linu
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:13:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F14296B.4070003@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC1B881-0724-49E3-B892-F40BEB07D15D@suse.de>

On 01/16/2012 09:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
[...]
>> Result for PLE machine:
>> ======================
>> Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R)  X7560 2.27GHz CPU with 32/64 core, with 8
>>          online cores and 4*64GB RAM
>>
>> Kernbench:
>> 		 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>> 		 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> Scenario A:	 			
>> case 1x:	 161.263 (56.518) 	 159.635 (40.5621) 	1.00953
>> case 2x:	 190.748 (61.2745) 	 190.606 (54.4766) 	0.0744438
>> case 3x:	 227.378 (100.215) 	 225.442 (92.0809) 	0.851446
>>
>> Scenario B:
>> 		 446.104 (58.54 )	 433.12733 (54.476)	2.91
>>
>> Dbench:
>> Throughput is in MB/sec
>> NRCLIENTS	 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>>                	 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> 8       	1.101190  (0.875082) 	1.700395  (0.846809) 	54.4143
>> 16      	1.524312  (0.120354) 	1.477553  (0.058166) 	-3.06755
>> 32        	2.143028  (0.157103) 	2.090307  (0.136778) 	-2.46012
>
> So on a very contended system we're actually slower? Is this expected?
>
>

I think, the result is interesting because its PLE machine. I have to 
experiment more with parameters, SPIN_THRESHOLD, and also may be ple_gap 
and ple_window.

> Alex
>
>

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, X86 <x86@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave@linu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:13:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F14296B.4070003@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC1B881-0724-49E3-B892-F40BEB07D15D@suse.de>

On 01/16/2012 09:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
[...]
>> Result for PLE machine:
>> ======================
>> Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R)  X7560 2.27GHz CPU with 32/64 core, with 8
>>          online cores and 4*64GB RAM
>>
>> Kernbench:
>> 		 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>> 		 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> Scenario A:	 			
>> case 1x:	 161.263 (56.518) 	 159.635 (40.5621) 	1.00953
>> case 2x:	 190.748 (61.2745) 	 190.606 (54.4766) 	0.0744438
>> case 3x:	 227.378 (100.215) 	 225.442 (92.0809) 	0.851446
>>
>> Scenario B:
>> 		 446.104 (58.54 )	 433.12733 (54.476)	2.91
>>
>> Dbench:
>> Throughput is in MB/sec
>> NRCLIENTS	 BASE                    BASE+patch            %improvement
>>                	 mean (sd)               mean (sd)
>> 8       	1.101190  (0.875082) 	1.700395  (0.846809) 	54.4143
>> 16      	1.524312  (0.120354) 	1.477553  (0.058166) 	-3.06755
>> 32        	2.143028  (0.157103) 	2.090307  (0.136778) 	-2.46012
>
> So on a very contended system we're actually slower? Is this expected?
>
>

I think, the result is interesting because its PLE machine. I have to 
experiment more with parameters, SPIN_THRESHOLD, and also may be ple_gap 
and ple_window.

> Alex
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-14 18:25 [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 1/5] debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 2/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:24   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:24     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  8:43     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  8:43       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  9:03   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:03     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:55     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  9:55       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 3/5] kvm guest : Added configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 4/5] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:12   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:12     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  7:25     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  7:25       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  9:05   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:05     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:13     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:13       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:47       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:47         ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:49         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 23:49           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-17 11:02   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 11:02     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 11:33     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 11:33       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18  1:34       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18  1:34         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 13:54         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 13:54           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 21:52           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 21:52             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-24 14:08             ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-24 14:08               ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-24 18:51               ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-24 18:51                 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:57     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:57       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-24 19:01       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:23   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:23     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:51     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16  3:51       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16  4:00       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  4:00         ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  8:47         ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  8:44     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  8:44       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:26       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 10:26         ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  9:00   ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:00     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  9:40     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 10:14       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:11         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17  9:14           ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17  9:14             ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 12:26             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 12:26               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 12:51               ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 12:51                 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 13:11                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:11                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:20                   ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 13:20                     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 14:28                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 14:28                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 15:32                       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 15:32                         ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 15:53                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 15:53                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-20 15:09                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:13                 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 13:13                   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16  3:57 ` [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  3:57   ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16  6:40   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16  6:40     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16  8:55     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16  8:55       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:59       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 23:59         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:48         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18 10:48           ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:24     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 10:24       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17  0:30       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-17  0:30         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:23         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18 10:23           ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:43   ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2012-01-16 13:43     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:49     ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 13:49       ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 18:48       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:48         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:20   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 14:20     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 14:23     ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 14:23       ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 18:38       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:38         ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:42         ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 18:42           ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 17:27           ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 17:27             ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 17:39             ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 17:39               ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 18:36               ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:36                 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 21:57                 ` Dave Hansen
2012-01-17 21:57                   ` Dave Hansen
2012-01-18  2:27                   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18  2:27                     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25  8:55                 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25  8:55                   ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 16:35                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 16:35                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 17:45                     ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 17:45                       ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 19:05                       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 19:05                         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4F14296B.4070003@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --to=raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=agraf@suse.de \
    --cc=avi@redhat.com \
    --cc=dave.jiang@intel.com \
    --cc=dave@linu \
    --cc=glommer@redhat.com \
    --cc=gregkh@suse.de \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=jan.kiszka@siemens.com \
    --cc=jeremy@goop.org \
    --cc=konrad.wilk@oracle.com \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=levinsasha928@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=paulus@samba.org \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=riel@redhat.com \
    --cc=sedat.dilek@gmail.com \
    --cc=stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=x86@kernel.org \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xensource.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.