Re: [PATCH 00/30] SMP-group balancer - take 3

Dhaval Giani
2008-06-27T17:34:44Z

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another go at SMP fairness for group scheduling.
>
> This code needs some serious testing,..
>
> However on my system performance doesn't tank as much as it used to.
> I've ran sysbench and volanomark benchmarks.
>
> The machine is a Quad core (Intel Q9450) with 4GB of RAM.
> Fedora9 - x86_64
>
> sysbench-0.4.8 + postgresql-8.3.3
> volanomark-2.5.0.9 + openjdk-1.6.0
>
> I've used cgroup group scheduling.
>
> cgroup:/ - means all tasks are in the root group
> cgroup:/foo - means all tasks are in a subgroup
>
> mkdir /cgroup/foo
> for i in `cat /cgroup/tasks`; do
> echo $i > /cgroup/foo/tasks
> done
>
> The patches are against: tip/auto-sched-next of a few days ago.
>
> ---
>
> .25
>
> [root@twins sysbench-0.4.8]# ./doit-psql-256-60sec
> 1: transactions: 50514 (841.90 per sec.)
> 2: transactions: 98745 (1645.73 per sec.)
> 4: transactions: 192682 (3211.31 per sec.)
> 8: transactions: 192082 (3201.26 per sec.)
> 16: transactions: 188891 (3147.95 per sec.)
> 32: transactions: 182364 (3039.12 per sec.)
> 64: transactions: 169412 (2822.94 per sec.)
> 128: transactions: 139505 (2323.95 per sec.)
> 256: transactions: 131516 (2188.98 per sec.)
>
> [root@twins vmark]# LOOP_CLIENT_COUNT=1000 ./loopclient.sh 2>&1 | grep Average
> Average throughput = 113350 messages per second
> Average throughput = 112230 messages per second
> Average throughput = 113125 messages per second
>
>
> .26-rc
>
> cgroup:/
>
> [root@twins sysbench-0.4.8]# ./doit-psql-256-60sec
> 1: transactions: 50553 (842.54 per sec.)
> 2: transactions: 98625 (1643.74 per sec.)
> 4: transactions: 191351 (3189.12 per sec.)
> 8: transactions: 193525 (3225.32 per sec.)
> 16: transactions: 190516 (3175.10 per sec.)
> 32: transactions: 186914 (3114.96 per sec.)
> 64: transactions: 178940 (2981.78 per sec.)
> 128: transactions: 156430 (2606.00 per sec.)
> 256: transactions: 134929 (2246.63 per sec.)
>
> [root@twins vmark]# LOOP_CLIENT_COUNT=1000 ./loopclient.sh 2>&1 | grep Average
> Average throughput = 124089 messages per second
> Average throughput = 121962 messages per second
> Average throughput = 121223 messages per second
>
>
> cgroup:/foo
>
> [root@twins sysbench-0.4.8]# ./doit-psql-256-60sec
> 1: transactions: 50246 (837.43 per sec.)
> 2: transactions: 97466 (1624.41 per sec.)
> 4: transactions: 179609 (2993.43 per sec.)
> 8: transactions: 190931 (3182.07 per sec.)
> 16: transactions: 189882 (3164.50 per sec.)
> 32: transactions: 184649 (3077.14 per sec.)
> 64: transactions: 178200 (2969.46 per sec.)
> 128: transactions: 158835 (2646.14 per sec.)
> 256: transactions: 142100 (2366.51 per sec.)
>
> [root@twins vmark]# LOOP_CLIENT_COUNT=1000 ./loopclient.sh 2>&1 | grep Average
> Average throughput = 117789 messages per second
> Average throughput = 118154 messages per second
> Average throughput = 118945 messages per second
>
>
> .26-rc-smp-group
>
> cgroup:/
>
> [root@twins sysbench-0.4.8]# ./doit-psql-256-60sec
> 1: transactions: 50137 (835.61 per sec.)
> 2: transactions: 97406 (1623.41 per sec.)
> 4: transactions: 170755 (2845.88 per sec.)
> 8: transactions: 187406 (3123.35 per sec.)
> 16: transactions: 186865 (3114.18 per sec.)
> 32: transactions: 183559 (3059.03 per sec.)
> 64: transactions: 176834 (2946.70 per sec.)
> 128: transactions: 158882 (2647.04 per sec.)
> 256: transactions: 145081 (2415.81 per sec.)
>
> [root@twins vmark]# LOOP_CLIENT_COUNT=1000 ./loopclient.sh 2>&1 | grep Average
> Average throughput = 121499 messages per second
> Average throughput = 120181 messages per second
> Average throughput = 119775 messages per second
>
>
> cgroup:/foo
>
> [root@twins sysbench-0.4.8]# ./doit-psql-256-60sec
> 1: transactions: 49564 (826.06 per sec.)
> 2: transactions: 96642 (1610.67 per sec.)
> 4: transactions: 183081 (3051.29 per sec.)
> 8: transactions: 187553 (3125.79 per sec.)
> 16: transactions: 185435 (3090.45 per sec.)
> 32: transactions: 182314 (3038.25 per sec.)
> 64: transactions: 174527 (2908.22 per sec.)
> 128: transactions: 159321 (2654.24 per sec.)
> 256: transactions: 140167 (2333.82 per sec.)
>
> [root@twins vmark]# LOOP_CLIENT_COUNT=1000 ./loopclient.sh 2>&1 | grep Average
> Average throughput = 130208 messages per second
> Average throughput = 129086 messages per second
> Average throughput = 129362 messages per second

Some fairness numbers from tip/master

kernel compiles with even number of threads
/cgroup/a
[dhaval@mordor a]$ time make -j8
real 1m53.033s
user 1m28.785s
sys 0m22.224s

/cgroup/b
[dhaval@mordor b]$ time make -j16
real 1m51.826s
user 1m29.022s
sys 0m21.911s

kernel compile with odd number of threads
/cgroup/a
[dhaval@mordor a]$ time make -j7
real 1m49.441s
user 1m26.962s
sys 0m21.698s

/cgroup/b
[dhaval@mordor b]$ time make -j13
real 1m50.418s
user 1m26.888s
sys 0m21.508s

Running infinite loops in parallel (5 in one group, 2 in another)

8789 - 8793 belong to /cgroup/a
8794, 8795 belong /cgroup/b

When we start.

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8795 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 54.6 0.0 0:06.31 test
8794 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 45.6 0.0 0:06.91 test
8790 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 23.0 0.0 0:07.29 test
8789 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 22.6 0.0 0:07.80 test
8791 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 18.3 0.0 0:07.28 test
8792 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 18.3 0.0 0:07.01 test
8793 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 18.0 0.0 0:06.93 test

After sometime

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8794 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 49.9 0.0 0:46.98 test
8795 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 49.9 0.0 0:52.61 test
8793 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 20.3 0.0 0:24.96 test
8789 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 20.0 0.0 0:24.83 test
8790 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 20.0 0.0 0:24.32 test
8791 dhaval 20 0 1720 264 212 R 20.0 0.0 0:23.29 test
8792 dhaval 20 0 1720 260 212 R 20.0 0.0 0:25.04 test

But these numbers are not very stable. Also it takes a long time (~1min)
to converge here.

The results look really good though.

--
regards,
Dhaval