Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 20:46:37 +0300 From: Chagin Dmitry <dchagin@freebsd.org> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regarding issues with futexes and multiple threads Message-ID: <20110304174637.GA8522@dchagin.static.corbina.ru> In-Reply-To: <20110304110843.GA65337@freebsd.org> References: <20110303212051.GA54978@freebsd.org> <20110304061328.GA4073@dchagin.static.corbina.ru> <20110304110843.GA65337@freebsd.org>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:08:43AM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > On Fri Mar 4 11, Chagin Dmitry wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:20:51PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > > > hi there, > > >=20 > > > i've been investigating this issue for quite a while now and simply w= anted to > > > post some measurements i did. > > >=20 > > > basically there's a massive slowdown when a process triggers a lot of= threads > > > which are doing futex operations. the following example is from darre= n hart's > > > futex test suite (performance/). the slowdown seems to SMP related. h= ere are > > > the measurements running with SMP enabled and with kern.smp.disabled= =3D1: > > >=20 > >=20 > > 1) slowdown is expected behaviour. >=20 > even if the slowdown is to be expected, looking at the screenshot with the > top(1) output it seems obvious that there are issues with the current fut= ex > implementation. >=20 why do you think it's a problem with the futexes? > > 2) is it possible to run this test suite on FreeBSD? >=20 > i used emulators/linux_dist-gentoo-stage3 to compile the testsuite and th= en ran > it natively under freebsd. if you want to i can send you the file. it's >=20 > futex_wait: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dyn= amically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped >=20 ah, tests directly calls sys_futex syscall, so can't be used for umtx/futex= comparison :) It would be great to have the same set of tests to compare the linuxulator = threads and the native. --=20 Have fun! chd --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1xJXwACgkQ0t2Tb3OO/O1S9ACff7qrg5ZZXjV/eZEsQPbg5qdW YzEAoI2Zgk/MyNnIROTap6wsuqjwcXbO =agI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3--
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