On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:38:39AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:45:53 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:53:53PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > I have just done some updates while running 3.8.0-0.rc5.git0.1.fc19.
> > A couple of these machines were booted with slub_debug=- . They all
> > seemed a bit slower (based on my watching the updates and not real
> > benchmarks) than with
>
> Yeah, I had some noticable lag with 3.8.0-0.rc5.git1.1.fc19, which has
> identical debug options set to the kernel you mentioned. (Rawhide
> didn't go out yesterday, so I waited to turn more on).
>
> When I booted with slub_debug=- the lag was less, but still noticable.
> Seems CONFIG_PROVE_RCU might be a heavy hitter. We'll see going
> forward.
>
> I plan on enabling atomic sleep debugging today. Please keep up the
> testing and reporting everyone. It's much appreciated.
Just finally had a chance to reboot into 3.8.0-0.rc5.git1.1.fc19.x86_64
here.
It's very very very very slow graphically.
Also, I note that there's a bunch of disk i/o going on, perhaps btrfs
is having some poor interaction with the debugging?
Booting with slub_debug=- brings everything back to usable for me.
It looks like to me slub_debug is the thing that slows things down for
my use case. ;)
Hm. So that option was the third one enabled. Showed up in
3.8.0-0.rc4.git5.1. Does that specific kernel also cause issues for
you?
If not, I'm curious which one starts to because for your usecase it
could be a mixture of options causing problems.
josh