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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Lemon <bsd@fb.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, lkp@lists.01.org, lkp@intel.com,
	ying.huang@intel.com, feng.tang@intel.com,
	zhengjun.xing@intel.com
Subject: Re: [x86/mce]  7bb39313cd:  netperf.Throughput_tps -4.5% regression
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:14:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210112141438.GF13086@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210112142109.GE30747@xsang-OptiPlex-9020>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:21:09PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> 
> Greeting,
> 
> FYI, we noticed a -4.5% regression of netperf.Throughput_tps due to commit:
> 
> 
> commit: 7bb39313cd6239e7eb95198950a02b4ad2a08316 ("x86/mce: Make mce_timed_out() identify holdout CPUs")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git ras/core
> 
> 
> in testcase: netperf
> on test machine: 192 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 9242 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 192G memory
> with following parameters:
> 
> 	ip: ipv4
> 	runtime: 300s
> 	nr_threads: 16
> 	cluster: cs-localhost
> 	test: TCP_CRR
> 	cpufreq_governor: performance
> 	ucode: 0x5003003
> 
> test-description: Netperf is a benchmark that can be use to measure various aspect of networking performance.
> test-url: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/

I'm very very sceptical this thing benchmarks #MC exception handler
performance. Because the code this patch adds gets run only during a MCE
exception.

So unless I'm missing something obvious please check your setup.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-12 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-12 14:21 [x86/mce] 7bb39313cd: netperf.Throughput_tps -4.5% regression kernel test robot
2021-01-12 14:14 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20210116035251.GB29609@shbuild999.sh.intel.com>
2021-01-16 15:34     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-16 16:09       ` Feng Tang
2021-01-19  4:27         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-01-19 10:02           ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-19 12:15             ` Feng Tang
2021-01-19 13:17               ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-19 15:09                 ` Feng Tang
2021-01-19 15:33                   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-20  5:48                     ` Feng Tang

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