Bug 14384

Summary:	tbench regression with 2.6.32-rc1
Product:	Process Management	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	Scheduler	Assignee:	Ingo Molnar (mingo)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	yanmin_zhang
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.32-rc1	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	14230

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-10-11 21:16:28 UTC

Subject    : tbench regression with 2.6.32-rc1
Submitter  : "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Date       : 2009-10-09 9:51
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125508216713138&w=4
Handled-By : Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.31.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Caused by:

commit 59abf02644c45f1591e1374ee7bb45dc757fcb88
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 08:28:30 2009 +0200

    sched: Add SD_PREFER_LOCAL

First-Bad-Commit : 59abf02644c45f1591e1374ee7bb45dc757fcb88

Comment 1 Yanmin Zhang 2009-11-23 00:57:45 UTC

With kernel 2.6.32-rc7:

On core2 arch machines, tbench regression becomes about 4%. Originally, the
regression is about 33%.

On Nehalem, tbench regression is about 4%. Original is 7%.

On Itanium, tbench regression is about 16%. Original is 26%

As for the surplus regression, I suspect it's related to commit de69a80be32445. Peter already has an improved patch against commit de69a80be32445.

As the regression becomes far smaller, we might close the bug report now.

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-11-23 19:15:02 UTC

Closing.