Re: [sched] 23f0d2093c: -12.6% regression on sparse file copy

[Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:04:56PM +0800, fengguang.wu@intel.com wrote:
> Hi Joonsoo,
> 
> We noticed the below changes for commit 23f0d2093c ("sched: Factor out
> code to should_we_balance()") in test vm-scalability/300s-lru-file-readtwice

Hello, Fengguang.

There was a mistake in this patch and there was a fix and it was already merged
into mainline.

Could you test again with the commit (b0cff9d sched: Fix load balancing
performance regression in should_we_balance())?

Thanks.

> 
>         95a79b805b935f4  23f0d2093c789e612185180c4
>         ---------------  -------------------------
> ==>           4.45 ~ 5%   +1777.7%      83.60 ~ 5%  vm-scalability.stddev
> ==>       14966511 ~ 0%     -12.6%   13084545 ~ 2%  vm-scalability.throughput
>                 38 ~ 9%    +406.3%        193 ~ 7%  proc-vmstat.kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly
>             610823 ~ 0%     -41.4%     357990 ~ 0%  softirqs.SCHED
>          5.424e+08 ~ 0%     -38.5%  3.338e+08 ~ 6%  proc-vmstat.pgdeactivate
>           4.68e+08 ~ 0%     -37.5%  2.924e+08 ~ 6%  proc-vmstat.pgrefill_normal
>          5.549e+08 ~ 0%     -37.1%  3.491e+08 ~ 6%  proc-vmstat.pgactivate
>           14938509 ~ 1%     +27.0%   18974176 ~ 1%  vmstat.memory.free
>             978771 ~ 1%     +23.9%    1212704 ~ 3%  numa-vmstat.node2.nr_free_pages
>            3747434 ~ 0%     +21.7%    4560196 ~ 2%  proc-vmstat.nr_free_pages
> ==>      1.353e+08 ~ 0%     +18.8%  1.607e+08 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.numa_foreign
>          1.353e+08 ~ 0%     +18.8%  1.607e+08 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.numa_miss
>          1.353e+08 ~ 0%     +18.8%  1.607e+08 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.numa_other
>            3936842 ~ 1%     +22.2%    4812045 ~ 4%  numa-meminfo.node2.MemFree
>           21803812 ~ 0%     +17.7%   25661536 ~ 4%  numa-vmstat.node3.numa_foreign
>           73701524 ~ 0%     +15.0%   84769542 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.pgscan_direct_dma32
>           73700683 ~ 0%     +15.0%   84768687 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.pgsteal_direct_dma32
>          3.101e+08 ~ 0%     +11.2%  3.448e+08 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.pgsteal_direct_normal
>          3.103e+08 ~ 0%     +11.2%  3.449e+08 ~ 0%  proc-vmstat.pgscan_direct_normal
>           45613907 ~ 0%     +12.6%   51342974 ~ 3%  numa-vmstat.node0.numa_other
>             795639 ~ 0%     -48.6%     409113 ~13%  time.voluntary_context_switches
>                375 ~ 0%      +6.1%        398 ~ 0%  time.elapsed_time
>               9427 ~ 0%      -5.8%       8880 ~ 0%  time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
> 
> The test case basically does
> 
> for i in `seq 1 $nr_cpu`
> do      
>         create_sparse_file huge-$i
>         dd if=huge-$i of=/dev/null &
>         dd if=huge-$i of=/dev/null &
> done
> 
> where nr_cpu=120 (test box is a 4-socket ivybridge system).
> 
> The change looks stable, each point below is a sample run:
> 
>                                vm-scalability.stddev
> 
>    120 ++-------------------------------------------------------------------+
>        |                                                                    |
>    100 ++             *            *                                        |
>        | *.***        :    **      :     *    *  *     *     *              |
>        **     * *.** * :  *  :*.*  :: .* :   : * :*   * :  .* :   .*   * .**|
>     80 ++      *    *  *. :  *   *: ** : ::  :  *  :.*  * *   * ** :   :*   *
>        |                 *        *     : ***      *     *     *    :**     |
>     60 ++                               *                           *       |
>        |                                                                    |
>     40 ++                                                                   |
>        |                                                                    |
>        |                                                                    |
>     20 ++                                                                   |
>        | O  OO OO OOO  O OO  O                                              |
>      0 OO--O--O------OO----OO-----------------------------------------------+
> 
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