Re: miserable performance of 2.6.21 under network load

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Aaron Porter wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 08:48:00PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
Aaron Porter <[email protected]> writes:

	I'm in the process up upgrading a pool of apache servers from
2.6.17.8 to 2.6.21.5, and we're seeing a pretty major change in behavior.
Under identical network load, 2.6.21 has a load average more than 3 times
higher, cpu 0 spends well over 90% of its time in interrupts (vs ~30%
under 2.6.17). When we hit 3k apache sessions, ksoftirqd eats 100% of cpu0
and our network traffic drops off rapidly. The end result is that 2.6.17
performs twice as well under this load.
Can you oprofile it?

# opreport -l
CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 1994.52 MHz (estimated)
Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Cycles outside of halt state) with a unit mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 100000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
914379   48.8404  vmlinux-2.6.21.5         check_poison_obj
341920   18.2632  vmlinux-2.6.21.5         poison_obj

I bet you have CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB turned off in your 2.6.17 kernel, and turned on in your 2.6.21 kernel.

	-- Chris
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