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* VM tests on 2.4.15-pre6 and 2.4.15pre6aa1
@ 2001-11-18 14:57 rwhron
  2001-11-19  0:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: rwhron @ 2001-11-18 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, ltp-list


Kernels:	2.4.15-pre6 and 2.4.15pre6aa1

Tests:		Fill and write to 80% of vitual memory 10 times.
		mmap, touch, msync, and munmap 500000 pages 5 times.
		Simultaneously listen to long mp3 sampled at 128k with
		mp3blaster.

Summary:	2.4.15-pre6 49% faster on memfill test with higher mp3
		play time.  2.4.15-pre6 11% faster on mmap test.

Config diff:	CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y in 2.4.15-pre6

Hardware:
Athlon 1333
1024 MB RAM
1024 MB swap

2.4.15-pre6 used a higher percentage of CPU time for both tests.
2.4.15-pre6 played 97% of mp3 and 2.4.15pre6aa1 played 84% during memfill test.
I include one iteration of vmstat 1 from the memfill test because of differences
in b, free, memcache, etc columns.


2.4.15-pre6
-------------
mp3 played 297 seconds of 304 second run.  (97%)

Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
bytes allocated:                    1652241203
User time (seconds):                7.621
System time (seconds):              6.058
Elapsed (wall clock) time:          30.314
Percent of CPU this job got:        44.60
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  103.8
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  404169.7

vmstat 1 from second iteration of mtest01 -w -p 80:

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
 3  0  0 587712   2784   1164   7860   0 70656    56 70656 1278  2094  11  24  65
 2  0  0   4560 863708   1204   8256   0 11136   432 11140  562   942  49  26  25
 2  0  0   4560 695072   1236   8256   0   0     8    40  311   575  75  25   0
 2  0  0   4560 525692   1236   8256   0   0     0     0  277   540  74  26   0
 3  0  0   4560 357032   1236   8384   0   0   128     0  301   564  81  19   0
 2  0  0   4560 187624   1236   8384   0   0     0     0  300   542  81  19   0
 2  0  0   4560  17892   1236   8384   0   0     0     0  309   603  83  17   0
 2  1  1  86896   4932   1172   7812   0 15384    40 15416  554  1779  10  77  13
 9  0  2 139632   2176   1164   7808   0 92680    36 92672 1717  2363   5  15  80
 1  2  1 150768   2564   1188   7820   0 27052    92 27080  612   843  35  16  49
 2  1  0 184176   2240   1172   7812   0 35876    20 35884  718  1136  10  30  60
 1  1  0 218864   2660   1176   7816   0 36720    28 36724  625  1113  15  36  49
 1  2  0 243952   2584   1176   7812   0 35880    20 35880  612  1059  13  22  64
 0  2  0 303600   2604   1176   7816 248 55772   344 55800 1097  1960  13  24  63
 1  1  0 363632   2580   1168   7820   0 51452    48 51460 1049  1929  14  26  60
 0  2  0 400496   2656   1176   7816   0 49192    36 49192  819  1348  11  24  65
 0  2  1 450672   2552   1188   7820   0 49416    44 49444  911  1699  11  26  62
 2  2  0 498416   2592   1172   7820   0 44628    40 44632  901  1658  13  24  64
 1  2  0 535408   2644   1176   7816   0 40996    32 41000  706  1295  14  20  66
 0  2  0 584432   2548   1172   7816   0 49024    40 49028  901  1664  13  26  62
 1  2  0 643568   2608   1172   7816   0 59132   316 59160 1158  1951  14  24  63
 2  0  0  18580 880156   1208   7992 272 220   496   224  537   938  51  26  22

mp3 played 807 seconds of 808 second run.

Average for 5 mmap001 runs
bytes allocated:                    2048000000
User time (seconds):                4.184
System time (seconds):              25.596
Elapsed (wall clock seconds) time:  161.70
Percent of CPU this job got:        18.00
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  500153.2
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  35.6

2.4.15pre6aa1
-------------
mp3 played 370 seconds of 454 second run.  (84%)

Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
bytes allocated:                    1666501836
User time (seconds):                7.602
System time (seconds):              3.114
Elapsed (wall clock) time:          45.371
Percent of CPU this job got:        23.20
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  145.0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  407645.8

vmstat 1 from second iteration of mtest01 -w -p 80:

   procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
 0  4  1 580208  28232   1180   1272  84 23680   192 23684  466   709   8  13  79
 2  1  0   9524 1009964   1248   2204 332 384  1316   428  459   617  11  15  74
 2  0  0   9520 855112   1268   2476  28   0   316     0  303   569  78  19   3
 3  0  0   9520 685728   1268   2476   0   0     0     0  275   543  76  24   0
 2  0  0   9520 516008   1268   2476   0   0     0     0  275   544  81  19   0
 2  0  0   9520 346556   1268   2476   0   0     0     0  275   540  75  25   0
 3  0  0   9520 176932   1284   2476   0   0     0    24  292   547  85  15   0
 1  1  1  12588  27572   1176   1392 236 5084   388  5092  549   818  53  22  25
 1  9  1  27532  27876   1200    488 380 14684   692 14688  563   562   6  17  77
 1  6  1  47108  26108   1176    600 428 19696   896 19700  657   666   6  15  79
 0  5  0  80120  28000   1188    628 688 32992  1132 33028  971   896   7  16  77
 1  4  1  92892  26452   1164    728 576 12800  1144 12804  573   626   6  14  80
 0  5  1 120796  25832   1164    744 496 28032   804 28036  795   714   6  16  77
 1  5  1 146776  26608   1164    792 408 25984   680 26012  764   704   6  12  81
 2  3  1 189528  27004   1180    796 408 42496   688 42500 1097  1292   8   9  83
 1  2  1 210132  26724   1184    800 192 20864   276 20868  446   609  10  12  78
 0  3  1 239188  26760   1168    836  28 28800   224 28828  700  1299  14   6  80
 1  4  1 264012  27108   1172    840  76 24704   216 24712  586  1084  10  10  81
 1  3  0 284224  28652   1176    836  36 20480   252 20484  524   992   7   7  86
 1  2  1 306748  28208   1184    844  24 22656   164 22660  522   993  11   6  82
 3  0  2 326972  26608   1192    880   0 20224   176 20252  492   866  12  10  78
 0  3  1 351036  26608   1180    864   0 23936   132 23956  550   850   9   8  82
 2  2  1 375612  27792   1176    876   0 24704   196 24708  514   776   5  12  83
 2  1  1 400316  27972   1184    892   4 24596   200 24600  571   777  10   4  86
 0  3  2 429116  26612   1188    900   4 28780   148 28800  546   878  10   8  81
 2  2  1 464316  28404   1164    912   8 35072   252 35084  678  1085  10  11  80
 1  3  1 491320  27356   1184    976  68 27136   556 27140  611   864   9   8  83
 0  4  0 515384  28860   1184    952  40 24064   180 24068  550   812   8   6  85
 0  4  0 550020  28860   1176    956 144 34816   268 34844  670  1164  12   6  82
 2  2  0 578676  27648   1172    984  24 28544   196 28548  568   985  10  12  79
 1  3  1 603868  27948   1180    976  24 25216   168 25220  534   835   8  13  79
 0  4  1 631624  26608   1172   1004  20 27648   188 27652  504   825  12   8  80
 2  3  1 662184  26904   1172    996  56 30592   224 30624  658  1076   9   7  84
 0  4  0   9712 1011020   1236   1460 308 7680   876  7684  516   775   6  11  83

mp3 played 901 seconds of 902 second run. 

Average for 5 mmap001 runs
bytes allocated:                    2048000000
User time (seconds):                3.560
System time (seconds):              23.622
Elapsed (wall clock seconds) time:  180.49
Percent of CPU this job got:        14.60
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  500191.6
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  30.4

Hope this information is useful!

-- 
Randy Hron


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* Re: VM tests on 2.4.15-pre6 and 2.4.15pre6aa1
  2001-11-18 14:57 VM tests on 2.4.15-pre6 and 2.4.15pre6aa1 rwhron
@ 2001-11-19  0:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
  2001-11-19  3:29   ` rwhron
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrea Arcangeli @ 2001-11-19  0:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rwhron; +Cc: linux-kernel, ltp-list

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:57:20AM -0500, rwhron@earthlink.net wrote:
> Hope this information is useful!

yes it's useful. It seems normal, as said this kernel isn't going to
swap very easily, it tends to shrink the cache too much, and I only
cared to fix the >=3G boxes with no swap at all but with lots of cache
where I wanted to be sure the anon pages into the lru weren't going to
make the system sluggish (google setup incidentally). I increased
significantly the vm_mapped_ratio default setting to be sure no to have
swap_out in our way during the testing (of course, increasing
vm_mapped_ratio doesn't mean the swap_out doesn't work, but only makes
harder to the machine to run into swap, it tends to shrink the cache
more).

So if you've time to test, I'd like to know what you get also after a:

	echo 9 >/proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio

and also after backing out those two patches in order:

	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre6aa1/10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1-simple-cache-1
	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre6aa1/10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1

and again using "echo 9 >/proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio" after backing out
the two patches.

thanks for the feedback,

Andrea

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* Re: VM tests on 2.4.15-pre6 and 2.4.15pre6aa1
  2001-11-19  0:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
@ 2001-11-19  3:29   ` rwhron
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: rwhron @ 2001-11-19  3:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli; +Cc: linux-kernel, ltp-list

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:23:12AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> 	echo 9 >/proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio
> 
> and also after backing out those two patches in order:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre6aa1/10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1-simple-cache-1
> 	ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre6aa1/10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1
> 
> and again using "echo 9 >/proc/sys/vm/vm_mapped_ratio" after backing out
> the two patches.
> 
> thanks for the feedback,

Andrea,

Changing vm_mapped_ratio from 50 to 9 improved the time on the mmap001 
test by 11%.  

Backing out the 2 patches and changing vm_mapped_ratio to 9 improved the 
time on the memfill tests by 28% and improved mp3 playtime as well. :)  

2.4.15-pre6-vm_scan_rate=9
--------------------------

played 360 seconds of mp3 in 453 second test (79%)

Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
bytes allocated:                    1665138688
User time (seconds):                7.605
System time (seconds):              3.139
Elapsed (wall clock) time:          45.214
Percent of CPU this job got:        23.30
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  144.6
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  407313.4

played 808 seconds of mp3 in 813 second test (99%)

Average for 5 mmap001 runs
bytes allocated:                    2048000000
User time (seconds):                3.530
System time (seconds):              23.138
Elapsed (wall clock seconds) time:  162.60
Percent of CPU this job got:        15.80
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  500191.8
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  30.2

2.4.15-pre6-vm_scan_rate=9
without: 10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1-simple-cache-1 10_vm-14-no-anonlru-1
--------------------------

played 318 seconds of mp3 in 356 second test (89%)

Averages for 10 mtest01 runs
bytes allocated:                    1668179558
User time (seconds):                7.672
System time (seconds):              3.322
Elapsed (wall clock) time:          35.637
Percent of CPU this job got:        30.50
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  154.4
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  408058.2

played 796 seconds of mp3 in 806 second test (99%)

Average for 5 mmap001 runs
bytes allocated:                    2048000000
User time (seconds):                3.402
System time (seconds):              23.298
Elapsed (wall clock seconds) time:  161.46
Percent of CPU this job got:        15.80
Major (requiring I/O) page faults:  500190.4
Minor (reclaiming a frame) faults:  31.6

-- 
Randy Hron


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