Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression

Fengguang Wu
2016-08-15T12:58:26Z

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:03:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:27:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't recall having ever seen the mapping tree_lock as a contention
>>> point before, but it's not like I've tried that load either. So it
>>> might be a regression (going back long, I suspect), or just an unusual
>>> load that nobody has traditionally tested much.
>>>
>>> Single-threaded big file write one page at a time, was it?
>>
>> Yup. On a 4 node NUMA system.
>
>Ok, I can't see any real contention on my single-node workstation
>(running ext4 too, so there may be filesystem differences), but I
>guess that shouldn't surprise me. The cacheline bouncing just isn't
>expensive enough when it all stays on-die.
>
>I can see the tree_lock in my profiles (just not very high), and at
>least for ext4 the main caller ssems to be
>__set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
>
>And yes, looking at that, the biggest cost by _far_ inside the
>spinlock seems to be the accounting.
>
>Which doesn't even have to be inside the mapping lock, as far as I can
>tell, and as far as comments go.
>
>So a stupid patch to just move the dirty page accounting to outside
>the spinlock might help a lot.
>
>Does this attached patch help your contention numbers?

Hi Linus,

The 1BRD tests finished and there are no conclusive changes.

The overall aim7 jobs-per-min slightly decreases and
the overall fsmark files_per_sec slightly increases,
however both are small enough (less than 1%), which are kind of
expected numbers.

NUMA test results should be available tomorrow.

99091700659f4df9 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545 testcase/testparams/testbox
---------------- -------------------------- ---------------------------
%stddev %change %stddev
\ | \
71443 71286 GEO-MEAN aim7.jobs-per-min
972 961 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-creat-clo-4-performance/ivb44
52205 51525 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_cp-1500-performance/ivb44
2184471 ± 4% -6% 2051740 ± 3% aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_rd-9000-performance/ivb44
47049 46630 ± 3% aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_rr-1500-performance/ivb44
24932 -4% 23812 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_rw-1500-performance/ivb44
5884 5856 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_src-500-performance/ivb44
51430 51286 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-disk_wrt-1500-performance/ivb44
218 220 aim7/1BRD_48G-btrfs-sync_disk_rw-10-performance/ivb44
22777 23199 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-creat-clo-1000-performance/ivb44
130085 128991 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_cp-3000-performance/ivb44
2434088 ± 3% -8% 2232211 ± 4% aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_rd-9000-performance/ivb44
130351 128977 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_rr-3000-performance/ivb44
73280 74044 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_rw-3000-performance/ivb44
277035 -3% 268057 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_src-3000-performance/ivb44
127584 4% 132639 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-disk_wrt-3000-performance/ivb44
10571 10659 aim7/1BRD_48G-ext4-sync_disk_rw-600-performance/ivb44
36924 ± 7% 36327 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-creat-clo-1500-performance/ivb44
117238 119130 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_cp-3000-performance/ivb44
2340512 ± 5% 2352619 ± 10% aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_rd-9000-performance/ivb44
107506 ± 9% 7% 114869 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_rr-3000-performance/ivb44
105642 106835 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_rw-3000-performance/ivb44
26900 ± 3% 26442 ± 3% aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_src-3000-performance/ivb44
117124 ± 3% 117678 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-disk_wrt-3000-performance/ivb44
3689 3616 aim7/1BRD_48G-f2fs-sync_disk_rw-600-performance/ivb44
70897 72758 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-creat-clo-1500-performance/ivb44
267649 ± 3% 270867 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_cp-3000-performance/ivb44
485217 ± 3% 489403 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_rd-9000-performance/ivb44
360451 359042 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_rr-3000-performance/ivb44
338114 336838 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_rw-3000-performance/ivb44
60130 ± 5% 4% 62663 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_src-3000-performance/ivb44
403144 401476 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-disk_wrt-3000-performance/ivb44
26327 26513 aim7/1BRD_48G-xfs-sync_disk_rw-600-performance/ivb44

99091700659f4df9 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545
---------------- --------------------------
2117 2138 GEO-MEAN fsmark.files_per_sec
4325 4379 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_32G-btrfs-4K-4G-fsyncBeforeClose-1fpd-performance/ivb43
9466 ± 3% 4% 9804 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_32G-ext4-4K-4G-fsyncBeforeClose-1fpd-performance/ivb43
433 ± 5% 424 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-btrfs-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
185 ± 6% 5% 194 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-btrfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-performance/ivb44
368 ± 3% -4% 355 ± 6% fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-ext4-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
191 191 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-ext4-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-performance/ivb44
393 ± 4% 397 ± 4% fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-xfs-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
200 201 fsmark/1x-1t-1BRD_48G-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-performance/ivb44
924 -3% 896 ± 3% fsmark/1x-1t-1HDD-xfs-4K-400M-fsyncBeforeClose-1fpd-performance/ivb43
488 ± 3% 6% 516 fsmark/1x-64t-1BRD_48G-btrfs-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
559 564 fsmark/1x-64t-1BRD_48G-ext4-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
1130 1111 fsmark/1x-64t-1BRD_48G-ext4-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-performance/ivb44
526 ± 7% 6% 557 fsmark/1x-64t-1BRD_48G-xfs-4M-40G-NoSync-performance/ivb44
1583 ± 3% 1620 fsmark/1x-64t-1BRD_48G-xfs-4M-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-performance/ivb44
33202 33208 fsmark/8-1SSD-16-ext4-8K-75G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
33889 33784 fsmark/8-1SSD-16-ext4-9B-48G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
25576 25509 fsmark/8-1SSD-32-xfs-9B-30G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
9117 9079 fsmark/8-1SSD-4-btrfs-8K-24G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
13288 13261 fsmark/8-1SSD-4-btrfs-9B-16G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
18851 ± 11% 11% 21013 fsmark/8-1SSD-4-f2fs-8K-72G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4
24343 -4% 23473 ± 4% fsmark/8-1SSD-4-f2fs-9B-40G-fsyncBeforeClose-16d-256fpd-performance/lkp-hsw-ep4

Thanks,
Fengguang