[Bug 236233] Python multiprocessing is 4x slower with 11.2 compared to 11.0 kernel

2019-03-06 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236233 --- Comment #6 from Alex Richardson --- For now setting vm.pmap.pti=0 in /boot/loader.conf brings the testing time back down to 25.89s. Meltdown mitigation should not be too important for this server so I will disable it for now. I guess s

[Bug 236233] Python multiprocessing is 4x slower with 11.2 compared to 11.0 kernel

2019-03-06 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236233 --- Comment #5 from Konstantin Belousov --- If you disable KPTI by a knob, does the speed loss recover ? Can you try on bare metal ? There is no PCID feature advertised by the virtualized CPU, so we flush TLB on each syscall entry and exit

[Bug 236233] Python multiprocessing is 4x slower with 11.2 compared to 11.0 kernel

2019-03-06 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236233 --- Comment #4 from Alex Richardson --- It is a virtual machine with an Intel CPU: CPU info from dmesg: Hyper-V Version: 0.0.0 [SP0] Features=0x870 PM Features=0x0 [C0] Features3=0x0 XEN: Hypervisor version 4.7 detected. CPU: Intel(R

[Bug 236233] Python multiprocessing is 4x slower with 11.2 compared to 11.0 kernel

2019-03-06 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236233 --- Comment #3 from Konstantin Belousov --- This does not look too informative. Can you infer which syscalls take longer ? Or is it some different timing for synchronization ? Or might be something completely different. Also, what is th

[Bug 236233] Python multiprocessing is 4x slower with 11.2 compared to 11.0 kernel

2019-03-06 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236233 Alex Richardson changed: What|Removed |Added Status|New |Open Summary|Python m