Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:00:15PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:46:52PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Some more on SMP scaling:

These are all great theories, and you mentioned that you'd fixed the
regressions with tbench, but did you fix the regression with the io-gen
program I sent you?

No. I thought you were satisfied with the performance increase you saw
when pinning the process to a single processor?

Er, no. That program emulates a TPC-C run from the point of view of
doing as much IO as possible from all CPUs. Pinning the process to one
CPU would miss the point somewhat.

I seem to remember telling you that you might get more realistic
performance numbers by pinning the scsi_ram_0 kernel thread to a single
CPU (ie emulating an interrupt tied to one CPU rather than letting the
scheduler choose to run the thread on the 'best' CPU).

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