Re: [LKP] Re: [sched/fair] c722f35b51: tbench.throughput-MB/sec -29.1% regression

[Xing, Zhengjun]

Hi Rik,

    Do you have time to look at this? I re-test it in v5.13 and v5.14, 
the regression still existed. Thanks.

On 5/27/2021 10:00 AM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I will try to take a look at this on Friday.
>
> However, even if I manage to reproduce it on one of
> the systems I have access to, I'm still not sure how
> exactly we would root cause the issue.
>
> Is it due to
> select_idle_sibling() doing a little bit
> more work?
>
> Is it because we invoke test_idle_cores() a little
> earlier, widening the race window with CPUs going idle,
> causing select_idle_cpu to do a lot more work?
>
> Is it a locality thing where random placement on any
> core in the LLC is somehow better than placement on
> the same core as "prev" when there is no idle core?
>
> Is it tbench running
> faster when the woken up task is
> placed on the runqueue behind the current task on the
> "target" cpu, even though that CPU isn't currently
> idle, because tbench happens to go to sleep fast?
>
> In other words, I'm
> not quite sure whether this is
> a tbench (and other similar benchmark) specific thing,
> or a kernel thing, or what instrumentation we would
> want in select_idle_sibling / select_idle_cpu for us
> to root cause issues like this more easily in the
> future...

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Zhengjun Xing