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Date:	Sun, 1 Sep 2013 12:01:12 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@...com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] spinlock: A new lockref structure for lockless
 update of refcount

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Where is this a.out file from or how to generate it?
>
> Oh, that's just the silly threaded test-binary. I don't know what you
> called it.
>
> As to your config options, yesh, you have some expensive stuff.
> DEBUG_OBJECTS and DEBUG_MUTEXES in particular tend to cause lots of
> horrible performance issues. I didn't check if there might be other
> things..
>

I tried w/o DEBUG_OBJECTS and DEBUG_MUTEXES and disabled some
unnecessary debug-options, too (see attached diff).

This is what I get now...

[ TEST-CASE ]

$ ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf stat --null --repeat 5
./scripts/t_lockref_from-linus
Total loops: 26480075
Total loops: 27002388
Total loops: 25761463
Total loops: 26877615
Total loops: 27047644

 Performance counter stats for './scripts/t_lockref_from-linus' (5 runs):

      10,008617789 seconds time elapsed
          ( +-  0,07% )


Looks like this is now 10x faster: ~2.66Mloops (debug) VS.
~26.60Mloops (no-debug).

[ PERF-RECORD ]

$ sudo ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf record -e cycles:pp
./scripts/t_lockref_from-linus
Total loops: 26601346
[ perf record: Woken up 25 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 6.100 MB perf.data (~266501 samples) ]

[ PERF-REPORT ]

$ sudo ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf report -f

Samples: 159K of event 'cycles:pp', Event count (approx.): 76968896763
 12,79%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] irq_return
  4,36%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __ticket_spin_lock
  4,36%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __acct_update_integrals
  4,07%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] user_exit
  3,12%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] local_clock
  2,83%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] lockref_get_or_lock
  2,73%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] kmem_cache_alloc
  2,62%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __d_lookup_rcu
  2,53%  t_lockref_from-  libc-2.15.so          [.] __xstat64
  2,53%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] kmem_cache_free
  2,28%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] path_init
  2,27%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] link_path_walk
  1,86%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] user_enter
  1,85%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] rcu_eqs_exit_common.isra.43
  1,81%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] sched_clock_cpu
  1,79%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] rcu_eqs_enter_common.isra.45
  1,78%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] path_lookupat
  1,67%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] native_read_tsc
  1,63%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] cp_new_stat
  1,61%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] lockref_put_or_lock
  1,53%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] account_system_time
  1,48%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] tracesys
  1,47%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] copy_user_generic_unrolled
  1,46%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] syscall_trace_enter
  1,39%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] jiffies_to_timeval
  1,33%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] native_sched_clock
  1,27%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] getname_flags
  1,27%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] lookup_fast
  1,18%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] get_vtime_delta
  1,05%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] syscall_trace_leave
  1,03%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] generic_fillattr
  1,02%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] strncpy_from_user
  1,00%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] user_path_at_empty
  0,97%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] account_user_time
  0,95%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] vfs_fstatat
  0,95%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] system_call_after_swapgs
  0,92%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] generic_permission
  0,91%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] filename_lookup
  0,80%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] vfs_getattr
  0,78%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __ticket_spin_unlock
  0,74%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] complete_walk
  0,70%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] vtime_account_user
  0,68%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] d_rcu_to_refcount
  0,65%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] common_perm
  0,62%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] rcu_eqs_enter
  0,58%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] vtime_user_enter
  0,57%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __inode_permission
  0,55%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] dput
  0,52%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] apparmor_inode_getattr
  0,52%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] SYSC_newstat
  0,52%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] mntget
  0,49%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] cpuacct_account_field
  0,48%  t_lockref_from-  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __vtime_account_system
  0,46%  t_lockref_from-  t_lockref_from-linus  [.] start_routine

Thanks for all the explanations and hints.

Regards,
- Sedat -

P.S.: Some words to "perf -f"...

$ sudo ~/src/linux-kernel/linux/tools/perf/perf record -f -e cycles:pp
./scripts/t_lockref_from-linus
[sudo] password for wearefam:
  Error: unknown switch `f'

 usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
    or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

    -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list
available events
        --filter <filter>
                          event filter
    -p, --pid <pid>       record events on existing process id
    -t, --tid <tid>       record events on existing thread id
    -r, --realtime <n>    collect data with this RT SCHED_FIFO priority
    -D, --no-delay        collect data without buffering
    -R, --raw-samples     collect raw sample records from all opened counters
    -a, --all-cpus        system-wide collection from all CPUs
    -C, --cpu <cpu>       list of cpus to monitor
    -c, --count <n>       event period to sample
    -o, --output <file>   output file name
    -i, --no-inherit      child tasks do not inherit counters
    -F, --freq <n>        profile at this frequency
    -m, --mmap-pages <n>  number of mmap data pages
        --group           put the counters into a counter group
    -g, --call-graph <mode[,dump_size]>
                          do call-graph (stack chain/backtrace)
recording: [fp] dwarf
    -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc)
    -q, --quiet           don't print any message
    -s, --stat            per thread counts
    -d, --data            Sample addresses
    -T, --timestamp       Sample timestamps
    -P, --period          Sample period
    -n, --no-samples      don't sample
    -N, --no-buildid-cache
                          do not update the buildid cache
    -B, --no-buildid      do not collect buildids in perf.data
    -G, --cgroup <name>   monitor event in cgroup name only
    -u, --uid <user>      user to profile
    -b, --branch-any      sample any taken branches
    -j, --branch-filter <branch filter mask>
                          branch stack filter modes
    -W, --weight          sample by weight (on special events only)

- EOT -

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