Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Optimize the snmp stat aggregation for large cpus

[Raghavendra K T]

On 08/25/2015 08:03 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 13:24 +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> > While creating 1000 containers, perf is showing lot of time spent in
> > snmp_fold_field on a large cpu system.
> >
> > The current patch tries to improve by reordering the statistics gathering.
> >
> > Please note that similar overhead was also reported while creating
> > veth pairs  https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/556
> >
> > Setup:
> > 160 cpu (20 core) baremetal powerpc system with 1TB memory
>
> I wonder if these kind of results would demonstrate cache coloring
> problems on this host. Looks like all the per cpu data are colliding on
> same cache lines.

It could be. My testing on a 128 cpu system with less memory did not
incur huge time penalty for 1000 containers.
But snmp_fold_field in general had the problem.
for e.g. same experiment I had around 15% overhead for snmp_fold reduced 
to 5% after the patch.



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