On Fri, 2021-07-02 at 20:29 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I replaced my slub changes with slub-local-lock-v2r3. > I haven't seen any complains from lockdep or so which is good. Then I > did this with RT enabled (and no debug): Below is some raw hackbench data from my little i4790 desktop box. It says we'll definitely still want list_lock to be raw. It also appears to be saying that there's something RT specific to stare at in addition to the list_lock business, but add a pinch of salt to that due to the config of the virgin(ish) tip tree being much lighter than the enterprise(ish) config of the tip-rt tree. perf stat -r10 hackbench -s4096 -l500 full warmup, record, repeat twice for elapsed 5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip-rt 8,898.51 msec task-clock # 7.525 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.33% ) 368,922 context-switches # 0.041 M/sec ( +- 5.20% ) 42,281 cpu-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 5.28% ) 13,180 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.70% ) 33,343,378,867 cycles # 3.747 GHz ( +- 0.30% ) 21,656,783,887 instructions # 0.65 insn per cycle ( +- 0.67% ) 4,408,569,663 branches # 495.428 M/sec ( +- 0.73% ) 12,040,125 branch-misses # 0.27% of all branches ( +- 2.93% ) 1.18260 +- 0.00473 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.40% ) 1.19018 +- 0.00441 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.37% ) (repeat) 1.18260 +- 0.00473 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.40% ) (repeat) 5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip-rt +slub-local-lock-v2r3 list_lock=raw_spinlock_t 9,642.00 msec task-clock # 7.521 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.46% ) 462,091 context-switches # 0.048 M/sec ( +- 4.79% ) 44,411 cpu-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 4.34% ) 12,980 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.43% ) 36,098,859,429 cycles # 3.744 GHz ( +- 0.44% ) 25,462,853,462 instructions # 0.71 insn per cycle ( +- 0.50% ) 5,260,898,360 branches # 545.623 M/sec ( +- 0.52% ) 16,088,686 branch-misses # 0.31% of all branches ( +- 2.02% ) 1.28207 +- 0.00568 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.44% ) 1.28744 +- 0.00713 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.55% ) (repeat) 1.28085 +- 0.00850 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.66% ) (repeat) 5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip-rt +slub-local-lock-v2r3 list_lock=spinlock_t 10,004.89 msec task-clock # 6.029 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.37% ) 654,311 context-switches # 0.065 M/sec ( +- 5.16% ) 211,070 cpu-migrations # 0.021 M/sec ( +- 1.38% ) 13,262 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 0.79% ) 36,585,914,931 cycles # 3.657 GHz ( +- 1.35% ) 27,682,240,511 instructions # 0.76 insn per cycle ( +- 1.06% ) 5,766,064,432 branches # 576.325 M/sec ( +- 1.11% ) 24,269,069 branch-misses # 0.42% of all branches ( +- 2.03% ) 1.6595 +- 0.0116 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.70% ) 1.6270 +- 0.0180 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.11% ) (repeat) 1.6213 +- 0.0150 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.93% ) (repeat) virgin(ish) tip 5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip 7,320.67 msec task-clock # 7.792 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.31% ) 221,215 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.97% ) 16,234 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.07% ) 13,233 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.91% ) 27,592,205,252 cycles # 3.769 GHz ( +- 0.32% ) 8,309,495,040 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.37% ) 1,555,210,607 branches # 212.441 M/sec ( +- 0.42% ) 5,484,209 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 2.13% ) 0.93949 +- 0.00423 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.45% ) 0.94608 +- 0.00384 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.41% ) (repeat) 0.94422 +- 0.00410 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.43% ) 5.13.0.g60ab3ed-tip +slub-local-lock-v2r3 7,343.57 msec task-clock # 7.776 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.44% ) 223,044 context-switches # 0.030 M/sec ( +- 3.02% ) 16,057 cpu-migrations # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 4.03% ) 13,164 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.97% ) 27,684,906,017 cycles # 3.770 GHz ( +- 0.45% ) 8,323,273,871 instructions # 0.30 insn per cycle ( +- 0.28% ) 1,556,106,680 branches # 211.901 M/sec ( +- 0.31% ) 5,463,468 branch-misses # 0.35% of all branches ( +- 1.33% ) 0.94440 +- 0.00352 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.37% ) 0.94830 +- 0.00228 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.24% ) (repeat) 0.93813 +- 0.00440 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.47% ) (repeat)