On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:34:25AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > Short answer -- There appears to be a second bug where 3.13-rc3 is less
> > fair to threads getting time on the CPU.
> 
> Hmm.  Can you point me at the (fixed) microbenchmark you mention?
> 

ebizzy is what I was using to see the per-thread performance. It's at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ebizzy/. It's patched with the patch below
to give per-thread stats.

You probably want to run it manually but FWIW, the results I posted were
using mmtests (https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests) to build, patch,
run ebizzy and generate the report. The configuration file I used was
configs/config-global-dhp__tlbflush-performance. I have not tried a manual
performance analysis yet as an automated bisection is in progress to see
can the thread spread problem be found the easy way.

diff --git a/ebizzy.c b/ebizzy.c
index 76c7492..3e7644f 100644
--- a/ebizzy.c
+++ b/ebizzy.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static char **hole_mem;
 static unsigned int page_size;
 static time_t start_time;
 static volatile int threads_go;
-static unsigned int records_read;
+static unsigned int *thread_records_read;
 
 static void
 usage(void)
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ search_mem(void)
 static void *
 thread_run(void *arg)
 {
+       unsigned int *records = (unsigned int *)arg;
 
        if (verbose > 1)
                printf("Thread started\n");
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ thread_run(void *arg)
 
        while (threads_go == 0);
 
-       records_read += search_mem();
+       *records = search_mem();
 
        if (verbose > 1)
                printf("Thread finished, %f seconds\n",
@@ -471,12 +472,19 @@ start_threads(void)
        struct rusage start_ru, end_ru;
        struct timeval usr_time, sys_time;
        int err;
+       unsigned int total_records = 0;
 
        if (verbose)
                printf("Threads starting\n");
 
+       thread_records_read = calloc(threads, sizeof(unsigned int));
+       if (!thread_records_read) {
+               fprintf(stderr, "Error allocating thread_records_read\n");
+               exit(1);
+       }
+
        for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
-               err = pthread_create(&thread_array[i], NULL, thread_run, NULL);
+               err = pthread_create(&thread_array[i], NULL, thread_run, 
&thread_records_read[i]);
                if (err) {
                        fprintf(stderr, "Error creating thread %d\n", i);
                        exit(1);
@@ -505,13 +513,21 @@ start_threads(void)
                        fprintf(stderr, "Error joining thread %d\n", i);
                        exit(1);
                }
+               total_records += thread_records_read[i];
        }
 
        if (verbose)
                printf("Threads finished\n");
 
-       printf("%u records/s\n",
-              (unsigned int) (((double) records_read)/elapsed));
+       printf("%u records/s",
+              (unsigned int) (((double) total_records)/elapsed));
+
+       for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
+               printf(" %u", (unsigned int) (((double) 
thread_records_read[i])/elapsed));
+       }
+       printf("\n");
+
+       free(thread_records_read);
 
        usr_time = difftimeval(&end_ru.ru_utime, &start_ru.ru_utime);
        sys_time = difftimeval(&end_ru.ru_stime, &start_ru.ru_stime);

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