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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2006 11:13:02 -0700
From:      "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, performance@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)
Message-ID:  <20060509181302.GD3636@eucla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060509011109.GA57060@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Monday,  8 May 2006 at 21:11:09 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:43:28PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:52:07AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>> OK, David's patch fixes the umtx thundering herd (and seems to give a
>>> 4-6% boost).  I also fixed a thundering herd in FILEDESC_UNLOCK (which
>>> was also waking up 2-7 CPUs at once about 30% of the time) by doing
>>> s/wakeup/wakeup_one/.  This did not seem to give a performance impact
>>> on this test though.
>>
>> Turning down kern.hz from 1000 to 100 also made a big difference on 12
>> CPUs (+6.1%).
>>
>> Note also that the system is no less than 40% idle during the runs (at
>> any load), so the bottlenecks are serious.
>
> top -H shows the threads mostly in umtx state.

This doesn't lend much support to the idea that the gettimeofday()
calls are a bottleneck.  I've just been through the code, but if there
are any mutexes acquired there, I missed them.

Greg
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