Re: [PATCH] sched: Reduce contention in update_cfs_rq_blocked_load

From: Jason Low
Date: Fri Aug 08 2014 - 00:19:03 EST


On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 02:02 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 11:21:35AM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> > I ran these tests with most of the AIM7 workloads to compare its
> > performance between a 3.16 kernel and the kernel with these patches
> > applied.
> >
> > The table below contains the percent difference between the baseline
> > kernel and the kernel with the patches at various user counts. A
> > positive percent means the kernel with the patches performed better,
> > while a negative percent means the baseline performed better.
> >
> > Based on these numbers, for many of the workloads, the change was
> > beneficial in those highly contended, while it had - impact in many
> > of the lightly/moderately contended case (10 to 90 users).
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > | 10-90 | 100-1000 | 1100-2000
> > | users | users | users
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > alltests | -3.37% | -10.64% | -2.25%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > all_utime | +0.33% | +3.73% | +3.33%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > compute | -5.97% | +2.34% | +3.22%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > custom | -31.61% | -10.29% | +15.23%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > disk | +24.64% | +28.96% | +21.28%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > fserver | -1.35% | +4.82% | +9.35%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > high_systime | -6.73% | -6.28% | +12.36%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > shared | -28.31% | -19.99% | -7.10%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > short | -44.63% | -37.48% | -33.62%
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> Thanks, Jason. Sorry for late response.
>
> What about the variation of the tests? The machine you test on?

Hi Yuyang,

These tests were also done on an 8 socket machine (80 cores). In terms
of variation between the average throughputs, typically the noise range
is about 2% in many of the workloads.

Jason

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