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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

             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

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