Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV_FREE

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Eric Dumazet wrote:
Rik van Riel a écrit :
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:06 -0400
Rik van Riel <[email protected]> wrote:

Andrew Morton wrote:

I've also merged Nick's "mm: madvise avoid exclusive mmap_sem".

- Nick's patch also will help this problem. It could be that your patch
  no longer offers a 2x speedup when combined with Nick's patch.

It could well be that the combination of the two is even better, but it would be nice to firm that up a bit.
I'll test that.

Thanks.

Well, good news.

It turns out that Nick's patch does not improve peak
performance much, but it does prevent the decline when
running with 16 threads on my quad core CPU!

We _definately_ want both patches, there's a huge benefit
in having them both.

Here are the transactions/seconds for each combination:

   vanilla   new glibc  madv_free kernel   madv_free + mmap_sem
threads

1     610         609             596                545

545 tps versus 610 tps for one thread ? It seems quite bad, no ?

Could you please find an explanation for this ?

I have no idea why this happens.  Especially the last one,
going from a write lock to a read lock on the mmap_sem
should not make ANY difference whatsoever since we're
running single threaded!

2    1032        1136            1196               1200
4    1070        1128            2014               2024
8    1000        1088            1665               2087
16    779        1073            1310               1999

Performance with 2 database threads is way better though,
and performance with 4 or more threads more than doubles...

If you have an explanation on why single threaded performance
went down a little on my quad core system, please let me know.

Does performance suffer at all on a real UP system?

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