Re: [ckrm-tech] [RFC 0/4] sched: Add CPU rate caps (improved)

[Peter Williams]

MAEDA Naoaki wrote:
> Peter Williams wrote:
>
> > 4. Overhead Measurements.  To measure the implications for overhead
> > introduced by these patches kernbench was used on a dual 500Mhz
> > Centrino SMP system.  Runs were done for a kernel without these
> > patches applied, one with the patches applied but no caps being used
> > and one with the patches applied and running kernbench with a soft cap
> > of zero (which would be inherited by all its children).
> >
> > Average Optimal -j 8 Load Run:
> >
> >                   Vanilla          Patch Applied    Soft Cap 0%
> >
> > Elapsed Time      1056.1   (1.92)  1048.2   (0.62)  1064.1   (1.59)
> > User Time         1908.1   (1.09)  1895.2   (1.30)  1926.6   (1.39)
> > System Time        181.7   (0.60)   177.5   (0.74)   173.8   (1.07)
> > Percent CPU        197.6   (0.55)   197.0   (0)      197.0   (0)
> > Context Switches 49253.6 (136.31) 48881.4  (92.03) 92490.8 (163.71)
> > Sleeps           28038.8 (228.11) 28136.0 (250.65) 25769.4 (280.40)
>
> I tried to run kernbench with hard cap, and then it spent a very
> long time on "Cleaning souce tree..." phase. Because this phase
> is not CPU hog, my expectation is that it act as without cap.
>
> That can be reproduced by just running "make clean" on top of a
> kernel source tree with hard cap.
>
> % /usr/bin/time make clean
> 1.62user 0.29system 0:01.90elapsed 101%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
> 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (0major+68539minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>   # Without cap, it returns almost immediately
>
> % ~/withcap.sh  -C 900 /usr/bin/time make clean
> 1.61user 0.29system 1:26.17elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (0major+68537minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>   # With 90% hard cap, it takes about 1.5 minutes.

This is harder capping than I would expect.  I'll look into probable 
causes.  It could be caused by the simplification I made to the 
calculation of sinbin time.

> % ~/withcap.sh  -C 100 /usr/bin/time make clean
> 1.64user 0.34system 3:31.48elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (0major+68538minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>   # It became worse with 10% hard cap.

And so it should.

> % ~/withcap.sh  -c 900 /usr/bin/time make clean
> 1.63user 0.28system 0:01.89elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 
> 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (0major+68537minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>   # It doesn't happen with soft cap.

That's because soft caps allow you to go over the cap if no other tasks 
want the CPU.

Thanks for the feedback,
Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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