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Message-ID: <95966337-b36e-f45e-6b16-f433bcb90c4d@digikod.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:52:51 +0100
From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [fs] a0918006f9: netperf.Throughput_tps -11.6% regression
On 09/11/2021 18:21, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 02:41:59PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>>
>>
>> Greeting,
>>
>> FYI, we noticed a -11.6% regression of netperf.Throughput_tps due to commit:
>>
>>
>> commit: a0918006f9284b77397ae4f163f055c3e0f987b2 ("[PATCH v15 1/3] fs: Add trusted_for(2) syscall implementation and related sysctl")
>> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Micka-l-Sala-n/Add-trusted_for-2-was-O_MAYEXEC/20211013-032533
>> patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-hardening/20211012192410.2356090-2-mic@digikod.net
>>
>> in testcase: netperf
>> on test machine: 192 threads 4 sockets Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 9242 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 192G memory
>> with following parameters:
>>
>> ip: ipv4
>> runtime: 300s
>> nr_threads: 16
>> cluster: cs-localhost
>> test: TCP_CRR
>> cpufreq_governor: performance
>> ucode: 0x5003006
>>
>> test-description: Netperf is a benchmark that can be use to measure various aspect of networking performance.
>> test-url: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/
>>
>>
>> please be noted we made out some further analysis/tests, as Fengwei mentioned:
>> ==============================================================================
>> Here is my investigation result of this regression:
>>
>> If I add patch to make sure the kernel function address and data address is
>> almost same even with this patch, there is almost no performance delta(0.1%)
>> w/o the patch.
>>
>> And if I only make sure function address same w/o the patch, the performance
>> delta is about 5.1%.
>>
>> So suppose this regression is triggered by different function and data address.
>> We don't know why the different address could bring such kind of regression yet
>> ===============================================================================
>>
>>
>> we also tested on other platforms.
>> on a Cooper Lake (Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5318H CPU @ 2.50GHz with 128G memory),
>> we also observed regression but the gap is smaller:
>> =========================================================================================
>> cluster/compiler/cpufreq_governor/ip/kconfig/nr_threads/rootfs/runtime/tbox_group/test/testcase/ucode:
>> cs-localhost/gcc-9/performance/ipv4/x86_64-rhel-8.3/16/debian-10.4-x86_64-20200603.cgz/300s/lkp-cpl-4sp1/TCP_CRR/netperf/0x700001e
>>
>> commit:
>> v5.15-rc4
>> a0918006f9284b77397ae4f163f055c3e0f987b2
>>
>> v5.15-rc4 a0918006f9284b77397ae4f163f
>> ---------------- ---------------------------
>> %stddev %change %stddev
>> \ | \
>> 333492 -5.7% 314346 ± 2% netperf.Throughput_total_tps
>> 20843 -4.5% 19896 netperf.Throughput_tps
>>
>>
>> but no regression on a 96 threads 2 sockets Ice Lake with 256G memory:
>> =========================================================================================
>> cluster/compiler/cpufreq_governor/ip/kconfig/nr_threads/rootfs/runtime/tbox_group/test/testcase/ucode:
>> cs-localhost/gcc-9/performance/ipv4/x86_64-rhel-8.3/16/debian-10.4-x86_64-20200603.cgz/300s/lkp-icl-2sp1/TCP_CRR/netperf/0xb000280
>>
>> commit:
>> v5.15-rc4
>> a0918006f9284b77397ae4f163f055c3e0f987b2
>>
>> v5.15-rc4 a0918006f9284b77397ae4f163f
>> ---------------- ---------------------------
>> %stddev %change %stddev
>> \ | \
>> 555600 -0.1% 555305 netperf.Throughput_total_tps
>> 34725 -0.1% 34706 netperf.Throughput_tps
>>
>>
>> Fengwei also helped review these results and commented:
>> I suppose these three CPUs have different cache policy. It also could be
>> related with netperf throughput testing.
>
> Does moving the syscall implementation somewhere else change things?
> That's a _huge_ performance change for something that isn't even called.
> What's going on here?
This regression doesn't make sense. I guess this is the result of a
flaky netperf test, maybe because the test machine was overloaded at
that time.
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