Re: IPC drop down on AMD epyc 7702P

[Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>]

On 4/30/25 02:13, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> (+ more scheduler folks)
> 
> tl;dr
> 
> JB has a workload that hates aggressive migration on the 2nd Generation
> EPYC platform that has a small LLC domain (4C/8T) and very noticeable
> C2C latency.
> 
> Based on JB's observation so far, reverting commit 16b0a7a1a0af
> ("sched/fair: Ensure tasks spreading in LLC during LB") and commit
> c5b0a7eefc70 ("sched/fair: Remove sysctl_sched_migration_cost
> condition") helps the workload. Both those commits allow aggressive
> migrations for work conservation except it also increased cache
> misses which slows the workload quite a bit.
> 
> "relax_domain_level" helps but cannot be set at runtime and I couldn't
> think of any stable / debug interfaces that JB hasn't tried out
> already that can help this workload.
> 
> There is a patch towards the end to set "relax_domain_level" at
> runtime but given cpusets got away with this when transitioning to
> cgroup-v2, I don't know what the sentiments are around its usage.
> Any input / feedback is greatly appreciated.
> 


Hi Prateek,

Oh no, not "relax_domain_level" again, this can lead to load imbalance
in variety of ways. We were so glad this one went away with cgroupv2,
it tends to be abused by users as an "easy" fix for some urgent perf 
issues instead of addressing their root causes.


Thanks,
Libo