linux-kernel - Re: [LKP] [drm/mgag200] 90f479ae51: vm-scalability.median -18.8% regression

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Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:16:47 +0200
From:   Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
To:     "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@...el.com>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, michel@...nzer.net,
        lkp@...org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [drm/mgag200] 90f479ae51: vm-scalability.median -18.8%
 regression

Hi

Am 27.08.19 um 14:33 schrieb Chen, Rong A:
> 
> Both patches have little impact on the performance from our side.

Thanks for testing. Too bad they doesn't solve the issue.

There's another patch attached. Could you please tests this as well?
Thanks a lot!

The patch comes from Daniel Vetter after discussing the problem on IRC.
The idea of the patch is that the old mgag200 code might display much
less frames that the generic code, because mgag200 only prints from
non-atomic context. If we simulate this with the generic code, we should
see roughly the original performance.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> prefetch.patch:
> commit:
>   f1f8555dfb9 drm/bochs: Use shadow buffer for bochs framebuffer console
>   90f479ae51a drm/mgag200: Replace struct mga_fbdev with generic
> framebuffer emulation
>   77459f56994 prefetch shadow buffer two lines ahead of blit offset
> 
> f1f8555dfb9a70a2  90f479ae51afa45efab97afdde 77459f56994ab87ee5459920b3 
> testcase/testparams/testbox
> ----------------  -------------------------- -------------------------- 
> ---------------------------
>          %stddev      change         %stddev      change %stddev
>              \          |                \          | \
>      42912             -15%      36517             -17% 35515
> vm-scalability/performance-300s-8T-anon-cow-seq-hugetlb/lkp-knm01
>      42912             -15%      36517             -17% 35515       
> GEO-MEAN vm-scalability.median
> 
> schedule.patch:
> commit:
>   f1f8555dfb9 drm/bochs: Use shadow buffer for bochs framebuffer console
>   90f479ae51a drm/mgag200: Replace struct mga_fbdev with generic
> framebuffer emulation
>   ccc5f095c61 schedule dirty worker on local core
> 
> f1f8555dfb9a70a2  90f479ae51afa45efab97afdde ccc5f095c61ff6eded0f0ab1b7 
> testcase/testparams/testbox
> ----------------  -------------------------- -------------------------- 
> ---------------------------
>          %stddev      change         %stddev      change %stddev
>              \          |                \          | \
>      42912             -15%      36517             -15%      36556 ±  4%
> vm-scalability/performance-300s-8T-anon-cow-seq-hugetlb/lkp-knm01
>      42912             -15%      36517             -15% 36556       
> GEO-MEAN vm-scalability.median
> 
> Best Regards,
> Rong Chen
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