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Peter Anvin" , Andy Lutomirski , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Josh Poimboeuf , Paolo Bonzini , Arnd Bergmann , Frederic Weisbecker , "Paul E. McKenney" , Jason Baron , Steven Rostedt , Ard Biesheuvel , Sami Tolvanen , "David S. Miller" , Neeraj Upadhyay , Joel Fernandes , Josh Triplett , Boqun Feng , Uladzislau Rezki , Mathieu Desnoyers , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Masahiro Yamada , Han Shen , Rik van Riel , Jann Horn , Dan Carpenter , Oleg Nesterov , Clark Williams , Yair Podemsky , Marcelo Tosatti , Daniel Wagner , Petr Tesarik Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/29] context_tracking,x86: Defer some IPIs until a user->kernel transition Message-ID: References: <20251010153839.151763-1-vschneid@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: UucgOBSNWYir5HdsaO4SOz8vjHhBRaEh707XRyViGe8_1760538517 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Disposition: inline X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20251015_072842_558064_DC8889DE X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 22.60 ) X-BeenThere: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: "linux-riscv" Errors-To: linux-riscv-bounces+linux-riscv=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 15/10/25 15:16, Valentin Schneider wrote: > On 14/10/25 17:26, Valentin Schneider wrote: > > On 14/10/25 14:58, Juri Lelli wrote: > >>> Noise > >>> +++++ > >>> > >>> Xeon E5-2699 system with SMToff, NOHZ_FULL, isolated CPUs. > >>> RHEL10 userspace. > >>> > >>> Workload is using rteval (kernel compilation + hackbench) on housekee= ping CPUs > >>> and a dummy stay-in-userspace loop on the isolated CPUs. The main inv= ocation is: > >>> > >>> $ trace-cmd record -e "ipi_send_cpumask" -f "cpumask & CPUS{$ISOL_CPU= S}" \ > >>> -e "ipi_send_cpu" -f "cpu & CPUS{$ISOL_CPUS}" \ > >>> rteval --onlyload --loads-cpulist=3D$HK_CPUS \ > >>> --hackbench-runlowmem=3DTrue --duration=3D$DURATION > >>> > >>> This only records IPIs sent to isolated CPUs, so any event there is i= nterference > >>> (with a bit of fuzz at the start/end of the workload when spawning the > >>> processes). All tests were done with a duration of 6 hours. > >>> > >>> v6.17 > >>> o ~5400 IPIs received, so about ~200 interfering IPI per isolated CPU > >>> o About one interfering IPI just shy of every 2 minutes > >>> > >>> v6.17 + patches > >>> o Zilch! > >> > >> Nice. :) > >> > >> About performance, can we assume housekeeping CPUs are not affected by > >> the change (they don't seem to use the trick anyway) or do we want/need > >> to collect some numbers on them as well just in case (maybe more > >> throughput oriented)? > >> > > > > So for the text_poke IPI yes, because this is all done through > > context_tracking which doesn't imply housekeeping CPUs. > > > > For the TLB flush faff the HK CPUs get two extra writes per kernel entry > > cycle (one at entry and one at exit, for that stupid signal) which I ex= pect > > to be noticeable but small-ish. I can definitely go and measure that. > > > = > On that same Xeon E5-2699 system with the same tuning, the average time > taken for 300M gettid syscalls on housekeeping CPUs is > v6.17: 698.64ns =B1 2.35ns > v6.17 + series: 702.60ns =B1 3.43ns > = > So noticeable (~.6% worse) but not horrible? Yeah, seems reasonable. Thanks for collecting numbers! _______________________________________________ linux-riscv mailing list linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv