Hi
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Now FreeBSD 7-STABLE ULE 8-core server without optimized PHP
realpath_cache_size (producing 2000+ lstats per request) can handle
up to ~24 rps as opposed to max. 17 rps without your patch. %sys
never grows over %user with your patch. On the server with optimized
realpath_cache_size there's no visible influence of your patch.
You said "20" before for this configuration, so I'm a bit suspicious
about how seriously to treat your measurements :)
Sorry, my mistake. s/ULE/4BSD.
OK, please compare ULE to ULE with and without my patch (and remembering
to enable the sysctl), and obtain lock profiling traces in both cases
under identical workloads & durations. That is what I need to proceed
with this issue.
I didn't measured the exact values of requests per second on ULE with
patch and without patch, but at first glance the benefits of the patch
are similiar to 4BSD. If you need this values, I'll obtain them.
Here you can find lock profiling results for 7-BETA3 GENERIC kernel with
SCHED_ULE running optimized PHP and unoptimized, with your patch and
without it: http://83.167.98.162/gprof/lockmgr/
This data was collected by th following script:
(sysctl debug.lock.prof.reset=1
sysctl debug.lock.prof.enable=1
sleep 60
sysctl debug.lock.prof.enable=0
sysctl debug.lock.prof.stats
top -d 2 -b | tail -25)
AFAIU there's still high contention on "lockbuilder mtxpool" with patch
applied. But hopefully "lockmgr:ufs" contention which i believe produced
80%sysCPU load is gone with your patch.
Also I tried to find what else is slow in FreeBSD, I tried hwpmc as
module and in kernel, but it fails with error:
pmc: Unknown Intel CPU.
There are patches you need to enable it on woodcrest. They are in my p4
branch (kris-contention) but I don't have time right now to extract them.
I think it would be very useful because I can't see any other ways to
profile FreeBSD on the modern many-cores machines.
With best regards,
Alexey Popov
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