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Message-ID: <20111114100306.GA10520@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:33:06 +0530
From:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] From: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>

[snip]

> Since throttling occurs in the put_prev_task() path we do not get to observe
> this delta against nr_running when making the decision to idle_balance().
> 
> Fix this by first enumerating cfs_rq throttle states so that we can distinguish
> throttling cfs_rqs.  Then remove tasks that will be throttled in put_prev_task
> from rq->nr_running/cfs_rq->h_nr_running when in account_cfs_rq_runtime,
> rather than delaying until put_prev_task.
> 
> This allows schedule() to call idle_balance when we go idle due to throttling.
> 
> Using Kamalesh's nested-cgroup test case[1] we see the following improvement on
> a 16 core system:
> baseline: Average CPU Idle percentage 13.9667%
>   +patch: Average CPU Idle percentage 3.53333%
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/15/261
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>

  Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for the patch. I tested patches on the same test environment, over which 
the cpu idle time was reported first at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/7/352. In 
brief, tests were run on 2 socket quad core machine with three level of nested 
cgroups hierarchy and five cgroups created below the third level. Each of the 
five cgroups, having 2,2,4,8,16 while1 or cpu-matrix (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/4/107) 
tasks attached to them respectively.

[1] CFS Bandwith tweaks, were the patches posted by Paul Turner (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/603)
[2] nohz idle balance RFC patch by Srivatsa Vaddagiri (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/2/117)

While running the cpu-matrix benchmark with the patches, there was an improvement 
around ~50 to 55% and additional ~3% benefit in idle time with nohz idle balance
patch. With while1 loop the improvment was around ~36 to 40% over tip and an 
additional benefit of ~4 to 5% was seen with nohz idle balance patch.

(1) cpu-matrix benchmark with nohz=on
    ----------------------------------

Run     Base (tip)                                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks + nohz idle patch
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1       Average CPU Idle percentage 4.1%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.36667%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.23333%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 95.9%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.63333%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.76667%

2       Average CPU Idle percentage 4.23%                       Average CPU Idle percentage 2.3%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.16667%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 95.77%         Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.7%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.83333%

(2) cpu-matrix benchmark with nohz=off
    -----------------------------------

Run     Base (tip)                                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks + nohz idle patch
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1       Average CPU Idle percentage 4.53333%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.43333%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.36667%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 95.46667%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.56667%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.63333%

2       Average CPU Idle percentage 4.4%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.36667%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.4%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 95.6%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.63333%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.6%


(3) while1 loop with nohz=on
    -------------------------

Run     Base (tip)                                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks + nohz idle patch
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1       Average CPU Idle percentage 6.26667%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.5%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.23333%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 93.73333%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.5%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.76667%

2       Average CPU Idle percentage 6.73333%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.46667%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.13333%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 93.26667%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.53333%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.86667%

(4) while1 loop with nohz=off
    --------------------------

Run     Base (tip)                                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks                              tip +  CFS Bandwith tweaks + nohz idle patch
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1       Average CPU Idle percentage 3.6%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.4%                        Average CPU Idle percentage 2.43333%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 96.4%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.6%          Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.56667%

2       Average CPU Idle percentage 3.46667%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.33333%                    Average CPU Idle percentage 2.4%
	Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 96.53333%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.66667%      Bandwidth shared with remaining non-Idle 97.6%

each cpu-matrix benchmark task was run as # perf sched cpu-matrix -s1k -i 1000 -p100

		Kamalesh.

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