linux-kernel - Re: [LKP] [lkp] [sctp] a6c2f79287: netperf.Throughput

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <80bbef60-34ed-0bf1-f1c5-8285b713c2f7@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:20:01 +0800
From:	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>
To:	Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, lkp@...org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [lkp] [sctp] a6c2f79287: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -37.2%
 regression

On 08/17/2016 04:58 PM, Xin Long wrote:
>>
>> It doesn't change on my desktop Sandybridge.
>>
>> $ cat 4.7.0-rc6-01199-g116558d316e8/0/netperf.json
>> {
>>   "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>    748.2056249999998
>>   ]
>> }
>>
>> Where commit 116558d316e8 is based on top of the last test commit
>> 98dd2532b14e with the sent_count removed.
> Nice job
> I guess it may be because of your system memory limitation
> 
> sctp_chunk size is bigger than before, netpref produced a lot
> of sctp_chunk in send queue.
> 
> can you check the memory of your systems when the test is
> running,  to see if memory is the bottle neck of this test ?

We have a monitor to dump /proc/meminfo every second during the run.

On my desktop, the result is -

At start:
time: 1471413103.386122645
MemTotal:       14193468 kB
MemFree:        13849136 kB
MemAvailable:   13789204 kB

In the middle of the run:
time: 1471413254.363430637
MemTotal:       14193468 kB
MemFree:        13811732 kB
MemAvailable:   13756376 kB

When the test is about to finish:
time: 1471413391.294215121
MemTotal:       14193468 kB
MemFree:        13286080 kB
MemAvailable:   13749416 kB

It doesn't seem memory is an issue.

The whole dump is about the same.
The MemFree and MemAvailable doesn't change much.

Thanks,
Aaron