Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

Denys
2007-09-30T18:46:16Z

Hi

pi ~ # zcat /proc/config.gz |grep SLUB
# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SLUB=y

21:27:20 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal
%idle intr/s
21:27:21 all 5.53 21.61 8.54 0.00 0.50 5.03 0.00
58.79 7147.52
21:27:22 all 6.40 15.76 8.87 0.00 0.49 20.20 0.00
48.28 6327.00
21:27:23 all 6.53 20.60 12.06 0.00 0.00 52.76 0.00
8.04 456.44
21:27:24 all 7.00 17.50 10.50 0.00 0.00 53.00 0.00
12.00 439.00
21:27:25 all 7.50 18.00 12.50 0.50 0.50 52.50 0.00
8.50 464.00
21:27:26 all 6.64 16.11 11.37 0.00 0.00 58.77 0.00
7.11 401.90
21:27:27 all 0.00 0.40 0.40 0.00 0.00 99.20 0.00
0.00 325.20
21:27:28 all 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.50 0.00
0.00 453.47
21:27:29 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00
0.00 495.10
21:27:30 all 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.50 0.00
0.00 625.74
21:27:31 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00
0.00 600.97
21:27:32 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00
0.00 604.95

64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=0.031 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=64 time=229 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=64 time=253 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=64 time=257 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=279 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=64 time=246 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=246 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=234 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=235 ms

Problem remains. It is another server.

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:48:44 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote

> > I've moved recently one of my proxies(squid and some compressing
application)
> > from 2.6.21 to 2.6.22, and notice huge performance drop. I think this is
> > important, cause it can cause serious regression on some other workloads
like
> > busy web-servers and etc.
> >
> > After some analysis of different options i can bring more exact numbers:
> >
> > 2.6.21 able to process 500-550 requests/second and 15-20 Mbit/s of
traffic,
> > and working great without any slowdown or instability.
> >
> > 2.6.22 able to process only 250-300 requests and 8-10 Mbit/s of traffic,
ssh
> > and console is "freezing" (there is delay even for typing characters).
> >
> > Both proxies is on identical hardware(Sun Fire X4100),
configuration(small
> > system, LFS-like, on USB flash), different only kernel.
> >
> > I tried to disable/enable various options and optimisations - it doesn't
> > change anything, till i reach SLUB/SLAB option.
> >
> > I've loaded proxy configuration to gentoo PC with 2.6.22 (then upgraded
it to
> > 2.6.23-rc8), and having same effect.
> > Additionally, when load reaching maximum i can notice whole system
slowdown,
> > for example ssh and scp takes much more time to run, even i do nice -n -5
for
> > them.
> >
> > But even choosing 2.6.23-rc8+SLAB i noticed same "freezing" of ssh (and
sure
> > it slowdown other kind of network performance), but much less comparing
with
> > SLUB. On top i am seeing ksoftirqd taking almost 100% (sometimes
ksoftirqd/0,
> > sometimes ksoftirqd/1).
> >
> > I tried also different tricks with scheduler (/proc/sys/kernel/sched*),
but
> > it's also didn't help.
> >
> > When it freezes it looks like:
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 R 64 0.0 2:47.48 ksoftirqd/1
> > 5819 root 20 0 134m 130m 596 R 57 3.3 4:36.78 globax
> > 5911 squid 20 0 1138m 1.1g 2124 R 26 28.9 2:24.87 squid
> > 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:01.86 events/1
> > 6130 root 20 0 3960 2416 1592 S 0 0.1 0:08.02 oprofiled
> >
> >
> > Oprofile results:
> >
> >
> > Thats oprofile with 2.6.23-rc8 - SLUB
> >
> > 73918 21.5521 check_bytes
> > 38361 11.1848 acpi_pm_read
> > 14077 4.1044 init_object
> > 13632 3.9747 ip_send_reply
> > 8486 2.4742 __slab_alloc
> > 7199 2.0990 nf_iterate
> > 6718 1.9588 page_address
> > 6716 1.9582 tcp_v4_rcv
> > 6425 1.8733 __slab_free
> > 5604 1.6339 on_freelist
> >
> >
> > Thats oprofile with 2.6.23-rc8 - SLAB
> >
> > CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 2592.64 MHz (estimated)
> > Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Cycles outside of halt state) with a
unit
> > mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 100000
> > samples % symbol name
> > 138991 14.0627 acpi_pm_read
> > 52401 5.3018 tcp_v4_rcv
> > 48466 4.9037 nf_iterate
> > 38043 3.8491 __slab_alloc
> > 34155 3.4557 ip_send_reply
> > 20963 2.1210 ip_rcv
> > 19475 1.9704 csum_partial
> > 19084 1.9309 kfree
> > 17434 1.7639 ip_output
> > 17278 1.7481 netif_receive_skb
> > 15248 1.5428 nf_hook_slow
> >
> > My .config is at http://www.nuclearcat.com/.config (there is SPARSEMEM
> > enabled, it doesn't make any noticeable difference)
> >
> > Please CC me on reply, i am not in list.
> >
>
> Could you try with SLUB but disabling CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG ?