Hello,
I've been investigating a performance problem on a
server using OpenLDAP 2.2.26 for nss resolution and
running kernel 2.6.12.
When a CPU bound process such as GCC is running in the
background (even at nice 10), many trivial commands such
as "su" or "groups" become extremely slow and take a few
seconds to complete.
strace revealed that data exchange over the slapd socket
was where most of the time was spent. Looking at the
slapd side, I see several calls to sched_yield() like this:
[pid 8780] 0.000033 stat64("gidNumber.dbb", 0xb7b3ebcc) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid 8780] 0.000059 pread(20, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\344\17\2\3"..., 4096, 4096) = 4096
[pid 8780] 0.000083 pread(20, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\222\0<\7\1\5\370"..., 4096, 16384) = 4096
[pid 8780] 0.000078 time(NULL) = 1124322520
[pid 8780] 0.000066 pread(11, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\250\0\0\0\231\0\0\0\235\0\0\0\16\0000"..., 4096, 688128) = 4096
[pid 8780] 0.000241 write(19, "0e\2\1\3d`\4$cn=bernie,ou=group,dc=d"..., 103) = 103
[pid 8780] 0.000137 sched_yield( <unfinished ...>
[pid 8781] 0.050020 <... sched_yield resumed> ) = 0
[pid 8780] 0.000025 <... sched_yield resumed> ) = 0
[pid 8781] 0.000060 futex(0x925ab20, FUTEX_WAIT, 33, NULL <unfinished ...>
[pid 8780] 0.000026 write(19, "0\f\2\1\3e\7\n\1\0\4\0\4\0", 14) = 14
[pid 8774] 0.000774 <... select resumed> ) = 1 (in [19])
The relative timestamp reveals that slapd is spending 50ms
after yielding. Meanwhile, GCC is probably being scheduled
for a whole quantum.
Reading the man-page of sched_yield() it seems this isn't
the correct behavior:
Note: If the current process is the only process in the
highest priority list at that time, this process will
continue to run after a call to sched_yield.
I also think OpenLDAP is wrong. First, it should be calling
pthread_yield() because slapd is a multithreading process
and it just wants to run the other threads. See:
int
ldap_pvt_thread_yield( void )
{
#if HAVE_THR_YIELD
return thr_yield();
#elif HAVE_PTHREADS == 10
return sched_yield();
#elif defined(_POSIX_THREAD_IS_GNU_PTH)
sched_yield();
return 0;
#elif HAVE_PTHREADS == 6
pthread_yield(NULL);
return 0;
#else
pthread_yield();
return 0;
#endif
}
--
// Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
\X/ http://www.develer.com/
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