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From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	mingo <mingo@elte.hu>, Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Subject: Re: oltp ~10% regression with 2.6.27-rc5 on stoakley machine
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:42:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220532123.12955.3.camel@minggr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220531187.8609.217.camel@twins>


On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:26 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 20:12 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > > > Thats bizarre... that just indicates the better clock, which should give
> > > > > better (read fairer) scheduling hurts your workload.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there anything I can run to see if we can fix the scheduler perhaps?
> > > > 
> > > > I observed schedstats of sysbench, there's more
> > > > "nr_failed_migrations_hot"
> > > > 
> > > > 2.6.27-rc4: se.nr_failed_migrations_hot 11
> > > > 2.6.27-rc5: se.nr_failed_migrations_hot 95
> > > > 
> > > > task migration failed because of task_hot, the system is un-balanced?
> > > 
> > > Ah, that makes sense, a more accurate clock could indeed make more tasks
> > > hot.
> > > 
> > > Can you try fiddling with: /proc/sys/kernel/sched_migration_cost ?
> > 
> > sched_migration_cost		regression
> > ----------------------          -------------
> > 50000                           ~6%
> > 0				~8%
> > 500000 (default)		~10%
> > 5000000                         ~14%
> > -1				~19%
> 
> at 50000 (~6%), is the predominant difference in schedstats still the
> nr_failed_migrations_hot?

Yes, it's strange that nr_failed_migrations_hot (cost=50000) is larger
than (cost=500000)

sched_migration_cost = 50000
----------------------------------------------------------
se.exec_start                      :       3475158.689868
se.vruntime                        :        935215.526989
se.sum_exec_runtime                :         14358.431942
se.avg_overlap                     :             0.000000
se.wait_start                      :             0.000000
se.sleep_start                     :       3475158.689868
se.block_start                     :             0.000000
se.sleep_max                       :            37.910779
se.block_max                       :             0.033796
se.exec_max                        :             0.121028
se.slice_max                       :             0.000000
se.wait_max                        :             6.007209
se.wait_sum                        :         25029.649588
se.wait_count                      :              1954948
sched_info.bkl_count               :                    0
se.nr_migrations                   :                 2521
se.nr_migrations_cold              :                    0
se.nr_failed_migrations_affine     :                    0
se.nr_failed_migrations_running    :                  147
se.nr_failed_migrations_hot        :                  123
se.nr_forced_migrations            :                    0
se.nr_forced2_migrations           :                 1236
se.nr_wakeups                      :              1952827
se.nr_wakeups_sync                 :              1944785
se.nr_wakeups_migrate              :                 2479
se.nr_wakeups_local                :              1930122
se.nr_wakeups_remote               :                22705
se.nr_wakeups_affine               :                13252
se.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts      :               825950
se.nr_wakeups_passive              :                    0
se.nr_wakeups_idle                 :                    0
avg_atom                           :             0.007355
avg_per_cpu                        :             5.695530
nr_switches                        :              1951994
nr_voluntary_switches              :              1949963
nr_involuntary_switches            :                 2031
se.load.weight                     :                 1024
policy                             :                    0
prio                               :                  120
clock-delta                        :                   81


sched_migration_cost = 500000
----------------------------------------------------------
se.exec_start                      :       3719706.806593
se.vruntime                        :       1049301.798712
se.sum_exec_runtime                :         14636.764384
se.avg_overlap                     :             0.000121
se.wait_start                      :             0.000000
se.sleep_start                     :       3719706.806593
se.block_start                     :             0.000000
se.sleep_max                       :           214.989106
se.block_max                       :             0.036240
se.exec_max                        :             0.147829
se.slice_max                       :             0.000000
se.wait_max                        :             6.475864
se.wait_sum                        :         24932.530233
se.wait_count                      :              1922627
sched_info.bkl_count               :                    0
se.nr_migrations                   :                 2314
se.nr_migrations_cold              :                    0
se.nr_failed_migrations_affine     :                    0
se.nr_failed_migrations_running    :                   71
se.nr_failed_migrations_hot        :                   76
se.nr_forced_migrations            :                    0
se.nr_forced2_migrations           :                 1735
se.nr_wakeups                      :              1920337
se.nr_wakeups_sync                 :              1908767
se.nr_wakeups_migrate              :                 2272
se.nr_wakeups_local                :              1898194
se.nr_wakeups_remote               :                22143
se.nr_wakeups_affine               :                 1218
se.nr_wakeups_affine_attempts      :               820118
se.nr_wakeups_passive              :                    0
se.nr_wakeups_idle                 :                    0
avg_atom                           :             0.007624
avg_per_cpu                        :             6.325308
nr_switches                        :              1919596
nr_voluntary_switches              :              1917396
nr_involuntary_switches            :                 2200
se.load.weight                     :                 1024
policy                             :                    0
prio                               :                  120
clock-delta                        :                   69





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-04 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-04  8:51 oltp ~10% regression with 2.6.27-rc5 on stoakley machine Lin Ming
2008-09-04  9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-04 10:52   ` Lin Ming
2008-09-04 11:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-04 12:12       ` Lin Ming
2008-09-04 12:26         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-04 12:42           ` Lin Ming [this message]
2008-09-04 13:50       ` Gregory Haskins
2008-09-04 13:50         ` [PATCH 1/4] revert "sched: sched_cacheflush is now unused" Gregory Haskins
2008-09-04 13:50         ` [PATCH 2/4] Revert "[PATCH] sched: remove cache_hot_time" Gregory Haskins
2008-09-04 13:50         ` [PATCH 3/4] Revert "sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code" Gregory Haskins
2008-09-04 13:50         ` [PATCH 4/4] sched: make task_hot() once again use sd->cache_hot_time Gregory Haskins
2008-09-04 11:09     ` oltp ~10% regression with 2.6.27-rc5 on stoakley machine Ingo Molnar
2008-09-04 11:30       ` Lin Ming
2008-09-04 11:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-04 12:19           ` Lin Ming
2008-09-05  1:26   ` Lin Ming
2008-09-20 21:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-26  2:00   ` Lin Ming
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2008-09-04  7:06 Lin Ming

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