VolanoMark 2.1.2 - VolanoMark loopback test of the 2.4.1 MQ Scheduler Patch

Bill Hartner, IBM Linux Technology Center, hartner@austin.ibm.com

The VolanoMark 10/100 loopback test was ran to compare the 2.4.1 and 2.4.1+MQ Scheduler kernel.  Previous Lockmeter data showed that the runqueue_lock had high utilization and spin time on an 8P system.  The average run queue length on an 8P is about 70 and the processes run [on average] for a short period of time [there are a lot of sys_sched_yields].  The MQ scheduler patch was tested to determine if it could remove the runqueue_lock contention.

More information on the MQ scheduler can be found at http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/

The 2.4.1 MQ scheduler patch improved throughput of the VolanoMark 10/100 loopback test.

8P system : message throughput increased by 150 % from 13,196 msg/s to 33,078 msg/s.
4P system : message throughput increased by 37 % from 17,595 msg/s to 24,213 msg/s.

Note that going from 4P to 8P no longer scales negatively.

Initial JVM heap sizes was 8MB.



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