On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:18:00PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:15:15PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > While gtod is time critical and often appears high on profile lists it is
> > > normally not as time critical as you're claiming it is; especially not
> > > time critical enough to warrant such radical action.
> >
> > Yes it was, because the small gain of using a dual core with such
> > a workload was clearly lost by that change. IIRC, I reached 25000
> > sessions/s on dual core with TSC if I didn't care about the clock,
> > 20000 without TSC, and 18000 on single core+TSC. But with the sniffer,
> > it was even worse : I had 500 kpps in dual-core+TSC, 70kpps without
> > TSC and 300 kpps with single-core+TSC. Since I had to buy the same
> > machines for both uses, this last argument was enough for me to stick
> > to a single core.
>
> Was the problem that they were not synced at poweron or that they would
> drift due to power-states?
They resynced at power up, but would constantly drift. I don't even know
if it was caused by power states. When the machine was loaded, a single
task moving across the cores could see its time jump back and forth
several times a second by an offset sometimes close to +2/-2s.
> Did you try running with idle=poll, to avoid ever entering C1 state (hlt)?
Yes, I remember trying such things. I also tried 'nohlt', completely
disabling power management, including ACPI, etc... I also tried vanilla
kernels as well as severely patched ones, but the problem remained the
same in all circumstances, that only 'notsc' could solve.
BTW, I've just found a remain of dmesg capture after boot in case you'd
like to look for anything in it.
Regards,
Willy
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