Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Kurt Garloff wrote: Hi Nick, Hi Kurt! On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:37:24PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Ian Pratt wrote: fork: 166 -> 235 (40% slowdown) exec: 857 -> 1003 (17% slowdown) I'm guessing this is down to the 4 level pagetables. This is rather a surprise as I thought the compiler would optimi

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-18 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi Nick, On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:37:24PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Ian Pratt wrote: > >fork: 166 -> 235 (40% slowdown) > >exec: 857 -> 1003 (17% slowdown) > > > >I'm guessing this is down to the 4 level pagetables. This is rather a > >surprise as I thought the compiler would optimise most of

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-17 Thread Ian Pratt
> There are some changes in the current -bk tree (which are a > bit in-flux at the moment) which introduce some optimisations. > > They should bring 2-level performance close to par with 2.6.10. > If not, complain again :) The good news is that with a BK snapshot from today [md5key=4238cb8e36_Z5

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:16:40PM +, Ian Pratt wrote: > > Folks, > > When we upgraded arch xen/x86 to kernel 2.6.11, we noticed a slowdown > on a number of micro-benchmarks. In order to investigate, I built > native (non Xen) i686 uniprocessor kernels for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 with > the same c

Re: 2.6.11 vs 2.6.10 slowdown on i686

2005-03-17 Thread Nick Piggin
Ian Pratt wrote: Folks, When we upgraded arch xen/x86 to kernel 2.6.11, we noticed a slowdown on a number of micro-benchmarks. In order to investigate, I built native (non Xen) i686 uniprocessor kernels for 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 with the same configuration and ran lmbench-3.0-a3 on them. The test mac