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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Netperf UDP_STREAM regression due to not sending IPIs in ttwu_queue()
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 14:14:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121002131421.GN29125@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349170282.7086.56.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:31:22AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:45 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: 
> > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:49:36AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > > Hm, 518cd623 fixed up the troubles I saw.  How exactly are you running
> > > this?
> > > 
> > 
> > You saw problems with TCP_RR where as this is UDP_STREAM.
> 
> Yeah, but I wanted to stare at UDP_STREAM as you run it to see if it
> would tell me anything about why those numbers happen.
> 
> > I'm running this through MMTests with a version of the
> > configs/config-global-dhp__network-performance file that only runs
> > netperf-udp. Ultimately it runs netperf for a size something like
> > this
> > 
> > SIZE=64
> > taskset -c 0 netserver
> > taskset -c 1 netperf -t UDP_STREAM -i 50,6 -I 99,1 -l 20 -H 127.0.0.1 -- -P 15895 -s 32768 -S 32768 -m $SIZE -M $SIZE
> 

lock_stat points at the runqueue lock which makes sense as without the
IPI the rq->lock has to be taken

3.3.0-vanilla
                              class name    con-bounces    contentions   waittime-min   waittime-max waittime-total    acq-bounces   acquisitions   holdtime-min   holdtime-max holdtime-total
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                               &rq->lock:         37062          37063           0.08          10.43       11037.66      410701252     1029063029           0.00          14.35   234556106.12
                               ---------
                               &rq->lock          14064          [<ffffffff81420a76>] __schedule+0xc6/0x710
                               &rq->lock             33          [<ffffffff8107791d>] idle_balance+0x13d/0x190
                               &rq->lock          11810          [<ffffffff8106cac7>] ttwu_queue+0x47/0xf0
                               &rq->lock            283          [<ffffffff81067f86>] task_rq_lock+0x56/0xa0
                               ---------
                               &rq->lock          22305          [<ffffffff8106cac7>] ttwu_queue+0x47/0xf0
                               &rq->lock          11260          [<ffffffff81420a76>] __schedule+0xc6/0x710
                               &rq->lock            158          [<ffffffff8107791d>] idle_balance+0x13d/0x190
                               &rq->lock              8          [<ffffffff810772a6>] load_balance+0x356/0x500

3.3.0-revert
                               &rq->lock:         10831          10833           0.09          10.47        4448.19          87877      768253556           0.00          16.00   140103672.33
                               ---------
                               &rq->lock            685          [<ffffffff810771d8>] load_balance+0x348/0x500
                               &rq->lock           8688          [<ffffffff8106d045>] try_to_wake_up+0x215/0x2e0
                               &rq->lock           1010          [<ffffffff814209b6>] __schedule+0xc6/0x710
                               &rq->lock            228          [<ffffffff81067f86>] task_rq_lock+0x56/0xa0
                               ---------
                               &rq->lock           3317          [<ffffffff814209b6>] __schedule+0xc6/0x710
                               &rq->lock            789          [<ffffffff810771d8>] load_balance+0x348/0x500
                               &rq->lock            363          [<ffffffff810770a4>] load_balance+0x214/0x500
                               &rq->lock              2          [<ffffffff810771e6>] load_balance+0x356/0x500

Note the difference in acq-bounces. I had to stop at this point and move
back to some CMA breakage I introduced.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-02 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02  6:51 Netperf UDP_STREAM regression due to not sending IPIs in ttwu_queue() Mel Gorman
2012-10-02  7:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-02  8:45   ` Mel Gorman
2012-10-02  9:31     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-02 13:14       ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-10-02 14:33         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-03  6:50         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-03  8:13           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-03 13:30             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-10 12:29               ` Mel Gorman
2012-10-10 13:02                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-10-10 13:05                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-10-02 22:48     ` Rick Jones
2012-10-03  9:47       ` Mel Gorman
2012-10-03 10:22         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-03 18:04         ` Rick Jones
2012-10-05  9:54           ` Mel Gorman

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