cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_ule.c

[Jeff Roberson]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:29:50 -1000 (HST), Jeff Roberson <jroberson at chesapeake.net> said:
>
>> Kris has done some excellent benchmarking as usual.  Here you can see the
>> improvement in postgres depending on various scheduler debug settings:
>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/pgsql-16cpu.png
>
> Can you comment on the area under the knee in the 8-cpu topologies?  I
> seems surprising that 16 cores performs worse than 8 cores in this
> regime.

Depending on the flags you can see different scaling properties of 
different cpu selection algorithms.  That's what the userret=x, tryself=y 
parameters are changing.  Certain parameters can cause less concurrency 
which works better when workloads are heavily contended.

See the light blue line, tryself=0, userret=0.  This scales up more 
poorly because there is less concurrency when there is no lock contention 
but behaves better when there is contention because we're less likely to 
distribute load that would preempt a lock holder.

The default settings scale the best when there is little or no contention. 
That's userret=1, tryself=1.  There are other parameters that are 
important but these were the ones we were most recently experimenting 
with.  This drops off harshly when there is significant contention because 
most of the threads end up blocked against the same lock and may be 
preempted then rely on priority propagation to kick in.

The default settings should encourage further refinements to subsystem 
locking to yield the best performance.

Thanks,
Jeff

>
> -GAWollman
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