Re: EEVDF and NUMA balancing

Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-09T10:30:04Z

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 08:04:34PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > I'll go build the benchmark thing tomorrow, if I can figure out how that
> > works, this NAS stuff looked 'special'. Nothing simple like ./configure;
> > make -j$lots :/
>
> Starting from git clone, I had to do:
>
> cd NPB3.4-OMP
> mkdir bin
> cd config
> cp make.def.template make.def
> cd ..
> make ua CLASS=C
>
> You also need gfortran to be installed.

W00t, that worked like a charm.

The sad new is that I can't seem to reproduce the issue:

So my (freshly re-installed with debian testing) 4 socket Intel(R)
Xeon(R) CPU E7-8890 v3 machine gives me:

root@hsw-ex:/usr/local/src/nas-parallel-benchmarks/NPB3.4-OMP/bin# uname -a
Linux hsw-ex 6.6.0-rc4+ #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Oct 9 11:14:21 CEST 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@hsw-ex:/usr/local/src/nas-parallel-benchmarks/NPB3.4-OMP/bin# cat /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing
1
root@hsw-ex:/usr/local/src/nas-parallel-benchmarks/NPB3.4-OMP/bin# ./ua.C.x | grep "Time in seconds"
Time in seconds = 26.69
root@hsw-ex:/usr/local/src/nas-parallel-benchmarks/NPB3.4-OMP/bin# ./ua.C.x | grep "Time in seconds"
Time in seconds = 26.31
root@hsw-ex:/usr/local/src/nas-parallel-benchmarks/NPB3.4-OMP/bin# ./ua.C.x | grep "Time in seconds"
Time in seconds = 25.43

And this is using a .config very near what Debian ships for 6.5 (make
olddefconfig -CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF)

I'll try again in a little bit, perhaps I'm suffering PEBKAC :-)