Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 15/04/2010 04:20 Maho NAKATA said the following: > Hi Andriy and Adam, > > I did also the same thing as suggested. > > my conclusion: on Core i7 920, 2.66GHz, TurboBoost on, HyperThreading off, So HyperThreading is off. > then, pinned to each core like following > > % procstat -t 1408 >

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 15/04/2010 07:28 Maho NAKATA said the following: > right. Pinning might not be so important I guess. Core i7 is not NUMA. It still should be beneficial from the point of view of core local caches. If a thread that works on the same data set (non shared) stays on the same core the chances are gr

Linux static linked ver doesn't work on FBSD (Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
From: Pieter de Goeje Subject: Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:05:18 +0200 > I think the best test would be to run a statically compiled linux binary on > FreeBSD. That way the compiler settings are exac

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
From: Ian Smith Subject: Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:21:30 +1000 (EST) > Er, shouldn't one of those say HTT on? and/or Turbo boost on? Else > they're both

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Maho NAKATA wrote: > >> Hi Andry and Adam > >> > >> My test again. No desktop, etc. I just run dgemm. > >> Contrary to Adam's result, Hyper Threading make

Re: Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread perryh
Pete French wrote: > ... using /usr/bin/mail as your primary mail reader ... > -pete. [resolutely sticking to the command line even in 2010! :-)] You're not the only one :) Not to discourage any improvements in the base, but have you looked at ports/mail/heirloom-mailx (formerly known as Nail)

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Maho NAKATA wrote: >> Hi Andry and Adam >> >> My test again. No desktop, etc. I just run dgemm. >> Contrary to Adam's result, Hyper Threading makes the performance worse. >> all tests are done on Core i7 920

Re: HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Maho NAKATA wrote: > Hi Andry and Adam > > My test again. No desktop, etc. I just run dgemm. > Contrary to Adam's result, Hyper Threading makes the performance worse. > all tests are done on Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz. (TurboBoost @2.8GHz) > > Turbo Boost off, Hyper thr

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
Hi Adam, From: Adam Vande More Subject: Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:47:31 -0500 > Since this is a full fledged desktop environment, 90% utilization seems > pretty good. No, I don't think so. Even

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
Hi Andriy and Adam, I did also the same thing as suggested. my conclusion: on Core i7 920, 2.66GHz, TurboBoost on, HyperThreading off, My result of dgemm GotoBLAS performance was following. *summary of result 36-39GFlops 81-87% of peak performance without pinning 35-40GFlops 78-89% of peak per

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
opps I missed this e-mail... From: Adam Vande More Subject: Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:45:04 -0500 > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > >> >> >> >> That's about 67% utili

HyperThreading makes worse to me (was Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920)

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
Hi Andry and Adam My test again. No desktop, etc. I just run dgemm. Contrary to Adam's result, Hyper Threading makes the performance worse. all tests are done on Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz. (TurboBoost @2.8GHz) Turbo Boost off, Hyper threading off: 82% (35GFlops)[1] Turbo Boost off, Hyper threadin

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Maho NAKATA
From: Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:19:13 +0300 > on 14/04/2010 02:21 Maho NAKATA said the following: >> 2. install ports/math/gotoblas (manual download required) >> make install

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-14 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:28:33 -0700 Jack Vogel wrote: > Oh, didn't realize you were running the lem code :) Will make the changes > shortly, r206614 works for me. Thanks :-) > thanks for your debugging efforts. > > Jack -- Mikolaj Golub ___ freebsd-s

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 14/04/2010 19:45 Adam Vande More said the following: > > > > also if I run cpuset on the dgemm then the utilization is basically at > > the theoretical max for one core so at least that part is working. > > You can also try procstat -t t

Re: Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread Pete French
> Well, the following header didn't work: > Cc: , Ah, indeed - with the angle brackets on it does not work, either with my patch or in the original. > Postfix will re-write this as part of sanitization, so I had to revert > to creating mbox files by hand. Anyway, could you please test the > follo

Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2010 19:41 Akephalos said the following: > > You won't believe this, Andriy! It didn't work (top, top -P) after I rebooted > my computer with that acpi option and machdep.lapic_allclocks explicitely set > to zero. _However_, by reasons unknown, my computer time is offseting randomly > and

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2010 19:45 Adam Vande More said the following: > > also if I run cpuset on the dgemm then the utilization is basically at > the theoretical max for one core so at least that part is working. You can also try procstat -t to find out thread IDs and cpuset -t to pin the threads to the cor

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > That's about 67% utilization, turning off HTT drops it more. HTT on the > newer cores is good, not bad. > Well that was completely contrarty to some tests I'd run when I first got the cpu. With HTT off: n: 3000 time : 44.705516 o

Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

2010-04-14 Thread Akephalos
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:39:37 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Anytime. Please tell me what options and source version (date) should I use. > > I'm currently on the revision from 8 April an have machdep.lapic_allclocks > > set > > to 1. > > I think that any version of source should be good, just se

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 14/04/2010 02:21 Maho NAKATA said the following: > > 4. run dgemm. > > % ./dgemm > > n: 3000 > > time : 134.648208 or 16.910525 > > Mflops : 31943.419695 > > n: 3100 > > time : 148.122279 or 18.615284 > > Mflops : 32017.357408 > > n: 3200

Re: Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 14.04.2010 at 15:38:21 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > Sorry Pete, but the patch still seems incomplete. You merely catch the > > case when a comma is followed by space or quotation marks, but the email > > header might look like this: > > To: f...@domain.com,b...@otherdomain.com > > I think

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-14 Thread Jack Vogel
Oh, didn't realize you were running the lem code :) Will make the changes shortly, thanks for your debugging efforts. Jack On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:40:03 +0300 Mikolaj Golub wrote: > > MG> Hi, > > MG> Today I have upgraded the kernel in

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2010 02:21 Maho NAKATA said the following: > 4. run dgemm. > % ./dgemm > n: 3000 > time : 134.648208 or 16.910525 > Mflops : 31943.419695 > n: 3100 > time : 148.122279 or 18.615284 > Mflops : 32017.357408 > n: 3200 > time : 162.45 or 20.430651 > Mflops : 32087.318295 > n: 3300 > ti

Re: ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.

2010-04-14 Thread Lystopad Olexandr
Hello, Johann Hugo! On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:19:01PM +0200 jh...@meraka.csir.co.za wrote about "Re: ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.": > On Wednesday 14 April 2010 02:57:35 pm Lystopad Olexandr wrote: > > But no luck: > > # ifconfig wlan0 wlanmode adhoc > > ifconfig: wlanmode: bad value > >

Re: Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread Pete French
> Sorry Pete, but the patch still seems incomplete. You merely catch the > case when a comma is followed by space or quotation marks, but the email > header might look like this: > To: f...@domain.com,b...@otherdomain.com I think the original code handles cases like that fine, my patch merely look

Re: Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 14.04.2010 at 14:45:55 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/131861 > > I've been using the patch now for a couple of months with no > observable problems. It is very small, and does fix a real > annoyance with using /usr/bin/mail as your primary mai

Re: ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.

2010-04-14 Thread Johann Hugo
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 02:57:35 pm Lystopad Olexandr wrote: > But no luck: > # ifconfig wlan0 wlanmode adhoc > ifconfig: wlanmode: bad value > Oops, should be: # ifconfig wlan0 mediaopt adhoc ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 15:19:13 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 14/04/2010 02:21 Maho NAKATA said the following: > > 2. install ports/math/gotoblas (manual download required) > > make install > > Do you know how gotoblas on Linux was obtained? > Was it built from source? > Has it come pre-packaged?

Any chance of someone commiting the patch in bin/131861 ?

2010-04-14 Thread Pete French
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/131861 I've been using the patch now for a couple of months with no observable problems. It is very small, and does fix a real annoyance with using /usr/bin/mail as your primary mail reader. I realise this is probably a very small number of people, b

Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2010 16:28 Akephalos said the following: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:06:56 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: >> What is not obvious is why your RTC doesn't work as expected. I have no >> answer to that. >> >> One thing that makes me suspicious is that HPET also doesn't seem to work on >> your sys

Re: CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

2010-04-14 Thread Akephalos
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:06:56 +0300 Andriy Gapon wrote: > That's pretty obvious: RTC was not used for stat clock in that version; later > version did try to use RTC and now Attilio has reverted the logic back to not > use RTC unless explicitly requested. > > What is not obvious is why your RTC do

Re: How to reproduce: Re: Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64, Corei7 920

2010-04-14 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 14/04/2010 02:21 Maho NAKATA said the following: > 2. install ports/math/gotoblas (manual download required) > make install Do you know how gotoblas on Linux was obtained? Was it built from source? Has it come pre-packaged? If so, can you find out details of its build configuration? Thanks!

Re: ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.

2010-04-14 Thread Lystopad Olexandr
Hello, Johann Hugo! > > when I do: > > # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 wlanmode adhoc > > > > I remember a colleague of mine having a similar problem. I think he > eventually > tried a workaround by doing it in two commands. Try to split it up to see if > it works. > > #ifconfig wlan0

Re: ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.

2010-04-14 Thread Johann Hugo
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:30:54 am Lystopad Olexandr wrote: > Hi! > > I install 8.0 FreeBSD, upgrade it to yesturday stable. > I need to create wireless link in adhoc mode. > Help me to do this. > > > I put a wireless card into this box: > > a...@pci0:3:3:0:class=0x02 card=0xcc2

ath0: kernel panic when adhoc mode.

2010-04-14 Thread Lystopad Olexandr
Hi! I install 8.0 FreeBSD, upgrade it to yesturday stable. I need to create wireless link in adhoc mode. Help me to do this. I put a wireless card into this box: a...@pci0:3:3:0:class=0x02 card=0xcc2114b9 chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications In

Re: Freeze on my laptop.

2010-04-14 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Demelier David wrote: > Hi, > >        I'm so sad because FreeBSD is the one which can runs almost perfectly > on >        my laptop. But it freezes. Sometime I just do anything and I want to >        click on a link in firefox, or open a terminal and then freeze.

Re: em driver regression

2010-04-14 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:40:03 +0300 Mikolaj Golub wrote: MG> Hi, MG> Today I have upgraded the kernel in my VirtualBox (3.1.51.r27187) to the MG> latest current and have "em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting" issue. My MG> previous kernel was for Mar 12. MG> Tracking the revision where the pr

Re: Strange Swapping Issues(?)

2010-04-14 Thread Gabor PALI
Hi Jeremy, On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The swapinfo command you ran was not run at 05:26 in the morning. It was run a few minutes after. I accidentally got it live :) Well, I was expecting that because I have seen similar message previously in the logs. I think i