Re: Mainline kernel OLTP performance update

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 19:33 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

On Friday 23 January 2009 14:02:53 Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

quoted

1) If I start CPU_NUM clients and servers, SLUB's result is about 2% better
than SLQB's;

I'll have to look into this too. Could be evidence of the possible
TLB improvement from using bigger pages and/or page-specific freelist,
I suppose.

Do you have a scripted used to start netperf in that configuration?

See the attachment.

Steps to run testing:
1) compile netperf;
2) Change PROG_DIR to path/to/netperf/src;
3) ./start_netperf_udp_v4.sh 8 #Assume your machine has 8 logical cpus.