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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
To: lkp@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [mm] c8c06efa8b5: -7.6% unixbench.score
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:24:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420705444.6201.103.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420703154.12346.10.camel@stgolabs.net>

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On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 23:45 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 10:27 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Cc'ing Peter.
> 
> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> > 
> > commit c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c234cfa82c47fcea ("mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem")
> 
> Same exact everything, except for the lock type. No sharing going on.
> 
> > testbox/testcase/testparams: lituya/unixbench/performance-execl
> > 
> > 83cde9e8ba95d180  c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c2  
> > ----------------  --------------------------  
> >          %stddev     %change         %stddev
> >              \          |                \  
> >     721721 ±  1%    +303.6%    2913110 ±  3%  unixbench.time.voluntary_context_switches
> >      11767 ±  0%      -7.6%      10867 ±  1%  unixbench.score
> 
> And this workload appears to be from execl, right? Make sense with some
> of those numbers!!

Yes.  The test we run for unixbench is execl.

> >  2.323e+08 ±  0%      -7.2%  2.157e+08 ±  1%  unixbench.time.minor_page_faults
> >        207 ±  0%      -7.0%        192 ±  1%  unixbench.time.user_time
> >    4923450 ±  0%      -5.7%    4641672 ±  0%  unixbench.time.involuntary_context_switches
> >        584 ±  0%      -5.2%        554 ±  0%  unixbench.time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
> >        948 ±  0%      -4.9%        902 ±  0%  unixbench.time.system_time
> >          0 ±  0%      +Inf%     672942 ±  2%  latency_stats.hits.call_rwsem_down_write_failed.vma_adjust.__split_vma.split_vma.mprotect_fixup.SyS_mprotect.system_call_fastpath
> 
> What does this "hits" thing mean exactly? Since I assume both before and
> after runs have the same level of concurrency when pounding on mmap
> operations, I doubt it means that its the amount of calls into the
> slowpath... in addition the lock is obviously contended so we can forget
> about anything in the fastpath.

I think because you changed mutex to rwsem so there was no rwsem related
statistics data for the parent commit.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> So this is a call_rwsem_down_write_failed() vs __mutex_lock_common()
> issue.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LKP mailing list
> LKP(a)lists.01.org
> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/lkp



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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: LKP ML <lkp@01.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [mm] c8c06efa8b5: -7.6% unixbench.score
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:24:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1420705444.6201.103.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420703154.12346.10.camel@stgolabs.net>

On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 23:45 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-08 at 10:27 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Cc'ing Peter.
> 
> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> > 
> > commit c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c234cfa82c47fcea ("mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem")
> 
> Same exact everything, except for the lock type. No sharing going on.
> 
> > testbox/testcase/testparams: lituya/unixbench/performance-execl
> > 
> > 83cde9e8ba95d180  c8c06efa8b552608493b7066c2  
> > ----------------  --------------------------  
> >          %stddev     %change         %stddev
> >              \          |                \  
> >     721721 ±  1%    +303.6%    2913110 ±  3%  unixbench.time.voluntary_context_switches
> >      11767 ±  0%      -7.6%      10867 ±  1%  unixbench.score
> 
> And this workload appears to be from execl, right? Make sense with some
> of those numbers!!

Yes.  The test we run for unixbench is execl.

> >  2.323e+08 ±  0%      -7.2%  2.157e+08 ±  1%  unixbench.time.minor_page_faults
> >        207 ±  0%      -7.0%        192 ±  1%  unixbench.time.user_time
> >    4923450 ±  0%      -5.7%    4641672 ±  0%  unixbench.time.involuntary_context_switches
> >        584 ±  0%      -5.2%        554 ±  0%  unixbench.time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
> >        948 ±  0%      -4.9%        902 ±  0%  unixbench.time.system_time
> >          0 ±  0%      +Inf%     672942 ±  2%  latency_stats.hits.call_rwsem_down_write_failed.vma_adjust.__split_vma.split_vma.mprotect_fixup.SyS_mprotect.system_call_fastpath
> 
> What does this "hits" thing mean exactly? Since I assume both before and
> after runs have the same level of concurrency when pounding on mmap
> operations, I doubt it means that its the amount of calls into the
> slowpath... in addition the lock is obviously contended so we can forget
> about anything in the fastpath.

I think because you changed mutex to rwsem so there was no rwsem related
statistics data for the parent commit.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> So this is a call_rwsem_down_write_failed() vs __mutex_lock_common()
> issue.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LKP mailing list
> LKP@lists.01.org
> https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/lkp



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-08  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-08  2:27 [mm] c8c06efa8b5: -7.6% unixbench.score Huang Ying
2015-01-08  2:27 ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-01-08  7:45 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08  7:45   ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08  7:50   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08  7:50     ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08  8:59     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08  8:59       ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-08 10:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-08 10:37         ` [LKP] " Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-08  8:24   ` Huang Ying [this message]
2015-01-08  8:24     ` Huang Ying
2015-01-09  2:47 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-09  2:47   ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-09  3:03   ` Huang Ying
2015-01-09  3:03     ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-01-09  4:02     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-09  4:02       ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-09  5:41       ` Huang Ying
2015-01-09  5:41         ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-01-10  2:18         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-10  2:18           ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-27  7:45       ` Huang Ying
2015-01-27  7:45         ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-01-27 20:43         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-01-27 20:43           ` [LKP] " Davidlohr Bueso

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