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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Subject: Performance regression with async inode inactivation
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:06:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211004100653.GD2255@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)

Hello,

our performance testing grid has detected a performance regression caused
by commit ab23a77687 ("xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues")
with reaim benchmark running 'disk' and 'disk-large' workloads. The
regression has been so far detected on two machines - marvin7 (48 cpus, 64
GB ram, SATA SSD), dobby (64 cpus, 192 GB ram, rotating disk behind
megaraid_sas controller).

The regression reports from mmtests on marvin7 (which from my experience I
find more reliable than dobby) look like:

reaim-io-disk-xfs
Hmean     disk-1       3597.12 (   0.00%)     3636.37 (   1.09%)
Hmean     disk-25    125000.00 (   0.00%)   121753.25 (  -2.60%)
Hmean     disk-49    218424.96 (   0.00%)   193421.05 * -11.45%*
Hmean     disk-73    286649.22 (   0.00%)   240131.58 * -16.23%*
Hmean     disk-97    349339.74 (   0.00%)   285854.62 * -18.17%*
Hmean     disk-121   373456.79 (   0.00%)   309199.32 * -17.21%*
Hmean     disk-145   399449.04 (   0.00%)   330547.11 * -17.25%*
Hmean     disk-169   420049.71 (   0.00%)   345132.74 * -17.84%*
Hmean     disk-193   458795.56 (   0.00%)   375243.03 * -18.21%*
Stddev    disk-1        102.32 (   0.00%)      117.93 ( -15.25%)
Stddev    disk-25      6981.08 (   0.00%)     4285.17 (  38.62%)
Stddev    disk-49      9523.63 (   0.00%)    10723.44 ( -12.60%)
Stddev    disk-73      9704.22 (   0.00%)     7946.73 (  18.11%)
Stddev    disk-97     10059.91 (   0.00%)     6111.28 (  39.25%)
Stddev    disk-121     5730.56 (   0.00%)    11714.34 (-104.42%)
Stddev    disk-145    11154.40 (   0.00%)     8129.06 (  27.12%)
Stddev    disk-169     4477.30 (   0.00%)     3558.86 (  20.51%)
Stddev    disk-193     8785.70 (   0.00%)    13258.89 ( -50.91%)

reaim-io-disk-large-xfs
Hmean     disk-1        722.72 (   0.00%)      721.85 (  -0.12%)
Hmean     disk-25     24177.95 (   0.00%)    24319.06 (   0.58%)
Hmean     disk-49     35294.12 (   0.00%)    34361.85 (  -2.64%)
Hmean     disk-73     43042.45 (   0.00%)    40896.36 *  -4.99%*
Hmean     disk-97     48403.19 (   0.00%)    46044.30 *  -4.87%*
Hmean     disk-121    52230.22 (   0.00%)    49347.47 *  -5.52%*
Hmean     disk-145    54613.94 (   0.00%)    52333.98 *  -4.17%*
Hmean     disk-169    57178.30 (   0.00%)    54745.71 *  -4.25%*
Hmean     disk-193    60230.94 (   0.00%)    57106.22 *  -5.19%*
Stddev    disk-1         18.74 (   0.00%)       30.19 ( -61.11%)
Stddev    disk-25       439.49 (   0.00%)      809.58 ( -84.21%)
Stddev    disk-49      1416.65 (   0.00%)      603.55 (  57.40%)
Stddev    disk-73       949.45 (   0.00%)      584.61 (  38.43%)
Stddev    disk-97       689.51 (   0.00%)      602.76 (  12.58%)
Stddev    disk-121      485.22 (   0.00%)      612.79 ( -26.29%)
Stddev    disk-145      147.37 (   0.00%)      442.99 (-200.60%)
Stddev    disk-169      282.25 (   0.00%)      613.42 (-117.33%)
Stddev    disk-193      970.05 (   0.00%)      572.59 (  40.97%)

Note that numbers behind dash (disk-xx) denote the number of reaim
"clients" - i.e., the number of processes reaim runs in parallel.

This reaim workload will create quite some small files, fsync them, do a
few operations on them like read, write, etc. and quickly delete them. This
happens in many processes in parallel so I can imagine the unlink workload
is rather heavy.

To reproduce the workload the easiest is probably to clone mmtests [1],
there's README.md and docs/Tutorial.md about how to run tests. Relevant
configurations are in configs/config-reaim-io-disk-large and
configs/config-reaim-io-disk, you will need to edit these files to set
appropriate test partition (will get wiped) and filesystem. Note that
mmtests do somewhat modify standard reaim benchmark so that it does not
call system("sync") after each operation (you can see modifications we
apply in [2] if you're interested).

I can probably find some time to better understand what's going on on these
machines later this week but if you have some suggestions what to look for,
you're welcome.

								Honza

[1] https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests
[2] https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests/blob/master/shellpack_src/src/reaim/reaim-install

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-04 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-04 10:06 Jan Kara [this message]
2021-10-04 18:17 ` Performance regression with async inode inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-10-04 21:15 ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-05  8:11   ` Jan Kara
2021-10-05 21:26     ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-06 18:10       ` Jan Kara
2021-10-06 21:58         ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-07 12:03           ` Jan Kara
2021-10-07 23:44             ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-12 13:42               ` Jan Kara
2021-10-12 21:23                 ` Dave Chinner
2021-10-13  9:51                   ` Jan Kara

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