Re: perf-stat changes after "Use hrtimers for event multiplexing"
From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Sat Jan 04 2014 - 20:14:33 EST
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:02:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:12:42PM +0800, fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We noticed many perf-stat changes between commit 9e6302056f ("perf: Use
> > hrtimers for event multiplexing") and its parent commit ab573844e.
> > Are these expected changes?
> >
> > ab573844e3058ee 9e6302056f8029f438e853432
> > --------------- -------------------------
> > 152917 +842.9% 1441897 TOTAL interrupts.0:IO-APIC-edge.timer
> > 545996 +478.0% 3155637 TOTAL interrupts.LOC
> > 182281 +12.3% 204718 TOTAL softirqs.SCHED
> > 1.986e+08 -96.4% 7105919 TOTAL perf-stat.node-store-misses
> > 107241719 -99.7% 317525 TOTAL perf-stat.node-prefetch-misses
> > 1.938e+08 -90.7% 17930426 TOTAL perf-stat.node-load-misses
> > 2590 +247.8% 9009 TOTAL vmstat.system.in
> > 4.549e+12 +158.3% 1.175e+13 TOTAL perf-stat.stalled-cycles-backend
> > 6.807e+12 +149.1% 1.696e+13 TOTAL perf-stat.stalled-cycles-frontend
> > 1.753e+08 -50.8% 86339289 TOTAL perf-stat.node-prefetches
> > 8.326e+11 +45.0% 1.207e+12 TOTAL perf-stat.cpu-cycles
> > 37932143 +32.2% 50146025 TOTAL perf-stat.iTLB-load-misses
> > 4.738e+11 +30.1% 6.165e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.iTLB-loads
> > 2.56e+11 +30.1% 3.33e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.L1-icache-loads
> > 4.951e+11 +24.6% 6.169e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.instructions
> > 7.85e+08 +7.5% 8.439e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-prefetch-misses
> > 1.891e+12 +22.8% 2.322e+12 TOTAL perf-stat.ref-cycles
> > 4.344e+08 -20.3% 3.462e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.node-loads
> > 2.836e+11 +17.4% 3.328e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.branch-loads
> > 9.506e+10 +24.5% 1.183e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.branch-load-misses
> > 2.803e+11 +18.4% 3.319e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.branch-instructions
> > 7.988e+10 +20.9% 9.658e+10 TOTAL perf-stat.bus-cycles
> > 2.041e+09 +22.2% 2.495e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.branch-misses
> > 229145 -17.3% 189601 TOTAL perf-stat.cpu-migrations
> > 1.782e+11 +17.9% 2.1e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.dTLB-loads
> > 4.702e+08 -14.8% 4.006e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-load-misses
> > 1.418e+11 +17.4% 1.666e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.L1-dcache-loads
> > 1.838e+09 +16.1% 2.133e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-stores
> > 2.428e+09 +11.3% 2.702e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-loads
> > 2.788e+11 +8.6% 3.029e+11 TOTAL perf-stat.dTLB-stores
> > 8.66e+08 +10.8% 9.594e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-prefetches
> > 1.117e+09 +10.5% 1.234e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.dTLB-store-misses
> > 1.705e+09 +5.3% 1.796e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.L1-dcache-store-misses
> > 5.671e+09 +6.1% 6.015e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.L1-dcache-load-misses
> > 8.794e+10 +3.6% 9.109e+10 TOTAL perf-stat.L1-dcache-stores
> > 3.46e+09 +4.6% 3.618e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.cache-references
> > 8.696e+08 +1.8% 8.849e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.cache-misses
> > 1613129 +2.6% 1655724 TOTAL perf-stat.context-switches
> >
> > All of the changes happen in one of our test box, which has a DX58SO
> > baseboard and 4-core CPU. The boot dmesg and kconfig are attached.
> > We can test more boxes if necessary.
>
> How do you run perf stat?
perf stat -a $(-e hardware, cache, software events)
> Curious that you notice this now, its a fairly old commit.
Yeah, we are feeding old kernels to the 0day performance test system, too. :)
> IIRC we did have a few wobbles with that, but I cannot remember much
> detail.
>
> The biggest difference between before and after that patch is that we'd
> rotate while the core is 'idle'. So if you do something like 'perf stat
> -a' and have significant idle time it does indeed make a difference.
It is 'perf stat -a'; the CPU is mostly idle because it's an IO workload.
btw, we find another commit that changed some perf-stat output:
2f7f73a520 ("perf/x86: Fix shared register mutual exclusion enforcement")
Comparing to its parent commit:
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
1.308e+08 ~26% -77.8% 29029594 ~12% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-xfs-10dd
1.308e+08 -77.8% 29029594 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-prefetch-misses
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
97086131 ~ 7% -71.0% 28127157 ~11% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-xfs-10dd
97086131 -71.0% 28127157 TOTAL perf-stat.node-prefetches
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
1.4e+08 ~ 3% -56.6% 60744486 ~ 9% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-xfs-10dd
1.4e+08 -56.6% 60744486 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-load-misses
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
6.967e+08 ~ 0% -49.6% 3.513e+08 ~ 6% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-xfs-10dd
6.967e+08 -49.6% 3.513e+08 TOTAL perf-stat.node-stores
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
1.933e+09 ~ 1% -43.0% 1.103e+09 ~ 2% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-xfs-10dd
1.933e+09 -43.0% 1.103e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-stores
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
7.013e+08 ~ 5% -55.5% 3.118e+08 ~ 4% fat/micro/dd-write/1HDD-deadline-btrfs-100dd
6.775e+09 ~ 1% -20.4% 5.391e+09 ~ 1% lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-1dd
7.477e+09 -23.7% 5.703e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-store-misses
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
2.294e+09 ~ 1% -10.0% 2.065e+09 ~ 0% lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-1dd
2.294e+09 -10.0% 2.065e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.LLC-prefetches
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
8.685e+09 ~ 0% -10.0% 7.814e+09 ~ 1% lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-1dd
8.685e+09 -10.0% 7.814e+09 TOTAL perf-stat.cache-misses
069e0c3c4058147 2f7f73a52078b667d64df16ea
--------------- -------------------------
1.591e+12 ~ 0% -8.7% 1.453e+12 ~ 1% lkp-ws02/micro/dd-write/11HDD-JBOD-cfq-ext4-1dd
1.591e+12 -8.7% 1.453e+12 TOTAL perf-stat.dTLB-loads
Thanks,
Fengguang
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