From: Sasha Pachev <sasha@mysql.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <mkravetz@sequent.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange thread behaviour on 8-way x86 machine
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:45:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0107061245200U.17811@mysql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0107031225120K.18621@mysql> <20010703115139.B1128@w-mikek2.des.beaverton.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010703115139.B1128@w-mikek2.des.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:51, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:25:12PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have observed a rather strange behaviour doing a multi-threaded CPU
> > benchmark on an 8-way machine running 2.4.2 SMP kernel. Even when the
> > priority is reniced to the highest possible value, I am still unable to
reach
> > more than 50% CPU utilization. My benchmark just creates a bunch of
threads
> > with pthread_create(), and then runs a simple integer computation in each
> > thread. On a dual with 2.4.3 kernel, and a 4-way with 2.4.2 kernel, I am
able
> > to reach full CPU utilization.
>
> I haven't had any problem fully utilizing 8 CPUs on 2.4.* kernels. This
> may seem obvious, but do you have more than 4 CPUs worth of work for the
> system to do? What is the runqueue length during this benchmark?
Upon further investigation and testing, it turned out that the kernel was not
at fault - the problem was high mutex contention, which caused frequent
context switches, and the idle CPU was apparently from the scheduler waiting
for the original CPU to become available too often.
On a side note, it would be nice if a process could communicate to the kernel
that it would rather run on the first available CPU than wait for the perfect
one to become available.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-06 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-03 18:25 Strange thread behaviour on 8-way x86 machine Sasha Pachev
2001-07-03 18:51 ` Mike Kravetz
2001-07-06 18:45 ` Sasha Pachev [this message]
2001-07-06 19:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-06 20:35 ` Sasha Pachev
2001-07-06 20:41 ` Rik van Riel
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