Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2

[Aubrey Li]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 10:21 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:17 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > * Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > I have the same environment setup above, for nosmt cases, I used
> > > > /sys interface Thomas mentioned, below is the result:
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> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 1/1      1.987( 1.97%)   2.043( 1.76%) -2.84% 1.985( 1.70%)  0.12%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 2/2      2.074( 1.16%)   2.057( 2.09%)  0.81% 2.072( 0.77%)  0.10%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 4/4      2.140( 0.00%)   2.138( 0.49%)  0.09% 2.137( 0.89%)  0.12%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 8/8      2.140( 0.00%)   2.144( 0.53%) -0.17% 2.140( 0.00%)  0.00%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 16/16    2.361( 2.99%)   2.369( 2.65%) -0.30% 2.406( 2.53%) -1.87%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 32/32    5.032( 8.68%)   3.485( 0.49%) 30.76% 6.002(27.21%) -19.27%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 64/64    7.577(34.35%)   3.972(23.18%) 47.57% 18.235(14.14%) -140.68%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 128/128 24.639(14.28%)  27.440( 8.24%) -11.37% 34.746( 6.92%) -41.02%
> > > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > > 256/256 38.797( 8.59%)  44.067(16.20%) -13.58% 42.536( 7.57%) -9.64%
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> > > What do these numbers mean? Are these latencies, i.e. lower is better?
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> > Yeah, like above setup, I run sysbench(Non-AVX task, NA) and gemmbench
> > (AVX512 task, AVX) in different level utilizatoin. The machine has 104 CPUs, so
> > nosmt has 52 CPUs.  These numbers are 95th percentile latency of sysbench,
> > lower is better.
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> But what we are really interested in are throughput numbers under these
> three kernel variants, right?
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These are sysbench events per second number, higher is better.

NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
1/1       508.5( 0.2%)    504.7( 1.1%) -0.8%     509.0( 0.2%)  0.1%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
2/2      1000.2( 1.4%)   1004.1( 1.6%)  0.4%     997.6( 1.2%) -0.3%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
4/4      1912.1( 1.0%)   1904.2( 1.1%) -0.4%    1914.9( 1.3%)  0.1%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
8/8      3753.5( 0.3%)   3748.2( 0.3%) -0.1%    3751.3( 0.4%) -0.1%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
16/16    7139.3( 2.4%)   7137.9( 1.8%) -0.0%    7049.2( 2.4%) -1.3%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
32/32   10899.0( 4.2%)  10780.3( 4.4%) -1.1%    10339.2( 9.6%) -5.1%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
64/64   15086.1(11.5%)  14262.0( 8.2%) -5.5%    11168.7(22.2%) -26.0%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
128/128 15371.9(22.0%)  14675.8(14.4%) -4.5%    10963.9(18.5%) -28.7%
NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
256/256 15990.8(22.0%)  12227.9(10.3%) -23.5%   10469.9(19.6%) -34.5%