On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:43:08PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 15:47 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > ppc64: 8-way pSeries (1.5 GHz Power4) with 64 GB RAM
> > x86: 4-way NUMA-Q (360 MHz PII) with 3GB RAM
> >
> > Please ask questions/request more details, if you need them.
> 
> It would be interesting to see these on slightly more modern hardware.
> That ppc64 machine has *HUGE* L2/L3 caches, and the "NUMA-Q" really
> behaves like a regular-old 4-way PIII Xeon.  Plus, its 2MB L2 caches
> will hide lots of cacheline bouncing problems, and some of that is
> certainly going to be an issue when you bloat a data structure like
> 'struct page'.
> 
> I'd suggest trying these on a couple of different pieces of hardware.
> First, a real NUMA NUMA-Q.  A 16-processor 4-node system should do.
> Secondly, a non-Xeon x86 system.  These have smaller caches, and will
> have the cache problems show more effectively.  Finally, as large and
> NUMA-ish of a ppc64 system as you can get.
> 
> Also, all of your results appear to have relatively bouncy results.
> Perhaps you can run more iterations and post the averages.
> 
> Lastly, I wouldn't consider these results to be too valid at all until I
> see the system loaded up with a bunch (say 100 or 1000) CKRM classes.

One more clarification: Purpose of Nish's exercise is to show that CKRM
in itself doesn't add overhead to the code for those that are not going
to be using CKRM when the code is complied in and not to show that
CKRM is free of cost when used for its intended purpose.

> There are a ton of linear searches, and I look forward to seeing them
> choke.
> 
> -- Dave
> 
> 
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