Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-04 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 11:27:04AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The post linked above has numbers with nopcid disabling pcid use, and > > indeed, the difference is quite measurable. > > I'm going to re-run the tests on an Atom C2518 now, which doesn't have pcid, > I don't even know if it's affe

Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-04 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 01:20:00PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2018-01-03 13:57:25 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I think we should start to think about an option to > > disable this per process. We could imagine for example a prctl() > > requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN to disable it. This would at l

Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-03 Thread Andres Freund
On 2018-01-03 13:57:25 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:09:13PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > > > > > I thought it'd be interesting to run a short benchmark to be able to > > > estimate the impact of the PTI work

Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-03 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:09:13PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > > > I thought it'd be interesting to run a short benchmark to be able to > > estimate the impact of the PTI work on postgres workloads (which I work > > on). On my skylake la

Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > > I thought it'd be interesting to run a short benchmark to be able to > estimate the impact of the PTI work on postgres workloads (which I work > on). On my skylake laptop, a memory resident, OLTP workload with 16 > connections results in:

Re: Linux 4.15-rc6

2018-01-02 Thread Andres Freund
On 2017-12-31 14:57:51 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > With all the x86 pti work coming in late in the rc like this, I'm by > now almost guaranteed to do an rc8 this release, not because there are > any known problems, but simply because of the timing of the patches. > > Go forth and test, I though