From: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@amazon.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Hagar Hemdan <hagarhem@amazon.com>, wuchi <wuchi.zero@gmail.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <Mohamed@amazon.com>,
<Abuelfotoh@amazon.com>, Hazem <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Subject: BUG Report: Fork benchmark drop by 30% on aarch64
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 15:10:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250205151026.13061-1-hagarhem@amazon.com> (raw)
Hi,
There is about a 30% drop in fork benchmark [1] on aarch64 and a 10%
drop on x86_64 using kernel v6.13.1.
Git bisect pointed to commit eff6c8ce8d4d ("sched/core: Reduce cost
of sched_move_task when config autogroup") which merged starting
v6.4-rc1.
The regression only happens when number of CPUs is equal to number
of threads [2] that fork test is creating which means it's only visible
under CPU contention.
I used m6g.xlarge AWS EC2 Instance with 4 vCPUs and 16 GiB RAM for ARM64
and m6a.xlarge with also 4 vCPUs and 16 GiB RAM for x86_64.
I noticed this regression exists only when autogroup config is enabled.
Run the fork test with these combinations and autogroup is enabled:
Arch | commit eff6c8ce8d4d | Fork Result (lps) | %Cpu(s)
----------+---------------------+--------------------+------------------
aarch64 | without | 28677.0 | 3.2 us, 96.7 sy
aarch64 | with | 19860.7 (30% drop) | 2.7 us, 79.4 sy
x86_64 | without | 27776.2 | 3.1 us, 96.9 sy
x86_64 | with | 25020.6 (10% drop) | 4.1 us, 93.2 sy
----------+---------------------+--------------------+------------------
It seems that the commit is capping the amount of CPU resources that can
be utilized leaving around 18% idle in case of aarch64 and 3% idle in
x86_64 case which is likely the main reason behind the reported fork
regression.
When autogroup is disabled:
Arch | commit eff6c8ce8d4d | Fork Result (lps) | %Cpu(s)
----------+---------------------+--------------------+------------------
aarch64 | without | 19877.8 | 2.2 us, 80.1 sy
aarch64 | with | 20086.3 (~same) | 1.9 us, 80.2 sy
x86_64 | without | 24974.2 | 4.9 us, 92.5 sy
x86_64 | with | 24921.5 (~same) | 4.9 us, 92.4 sy
----------+---------------------+--------------------+------------------
So when autogroup disabled, I still see the amount of idle CPU resources
18%, 3% on aarch64 and x86_64 regardless of commit.
Is this performance drop an expected of this commit when autogroup is
enabled?
Thanks,
Hagar
[1] https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/blob/master/UnixBench
[2] Used command: ./Run -c 4 spawn
next reply other threads:[~2025-02-05 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-05 15:10 Hagar Hemdan [this message]
2025-02-07 9:14 ` BUG Report: Fork benchmark drop by 30% on aarch64 Dietmar Eggemann
2025-02-07 11:07 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-02-10 10:38 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2025-02-10 21:31 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-02-11 16:27 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2025-02-11 21:40 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-02-13 18:55 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2025-02-17 22:51 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2025-02-21 6:44 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-03-03 10:05 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2025-03-03 13:57 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-02-28 19:39 ` Hagar Hemdan
2025-03-03 10:06 ` Dietmar Eggemann
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20250205151026.13061-1-hagarhem@amazon.com \
--to=hagarhem@amazon.com \
--cc=Abuelfotoh@amazon.com \
--cc=Mohamed@amazon.com \
--cc=abuehaze@amazon.com \
--cc=juri.lelli@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=vincent.guittot@linaro.org \
--cc=wuchi.zero@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox