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Message-ID: <20230301163214.17530-1-antonio.paolillo@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:32:14 +0100
From:   Antonio Paolillo <antonio.paolillo@...wei.com>
To:     <longman@...hat.com>
CC:     <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, <akpm@...l.org>,
        <arjan@...ux.intel.com>, <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        <diogo.behrens@...wei.com>, <hernan.poncedeleon@...weicloud.com>,
        <hernanl.leon@...wei.com>, <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        <jonas.oberhauser@...wei.com>, <jonas.oberhauser@...weicloud.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
        <paulmck@...nel.org>, <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>, <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        <tglx@...utronix.de>, <will@...nel.org>
Subject: lock_torture results for different patches:

Dear all,

I want to provide some support to Hernan regarding performance claims.

I used lock_torture to evaluate the different proposed patches on two
different server machines:
- a Huawei TaiShan 200 (Model 2280) rack server that has 128 GB of RAM
  and 2x Kunpeng 920-4826 processors, a HiSilicon chip with 48 ARMv8.2
  64-bit cores totaling 96 cores (no SMT) [1, 2],
  denoted as taishan200-96c;
- a GIGABYTE R182-Z91-00 rack server that has 128 GB of RAM and 2x
  EPYC 7352 processors, an AMD chip with 24 x86_64 cores, totaling 48
  cores (96 CPUs when counting hyperthreading) [3, 4],
  denoted as gigabyte-96c.

I ran the evaluation on a Ubuntu 22.04 distro, with custom kernels based
on v6.2-rc6 (6d796c50f84ca79f1722bb131799e5a5710c4700).
The different kernels are combination of patches:
- (0) Stock kernel;
- (1) With relaxed set owner barrier (as discussed in [5] and questioned
  by Peter, the barrier seems not to be needed);
- (2) With READ_ONCE(), as originally proposed in this thread;
- (3) With atomic_long_or() as proposed by Peter;
- (4) With relaxed set owner barrier and READ_ONCE();
- (5) With relaxed set owner barrier and atomic_long_or().

I ran lock_torture several times, exploring the following parameter
space:
- torture_type="rtmutex_lock",
- nwriters_stress=[1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 95],
- stat_interval=4,
- stutter=0,
- shuffle_interval=0.
For each value of "nwriters_stress", I ran the configuration 5 times.

By feeding the lock_torture kthread pids to "taskset -p", I overruled
the scheduling such that the distribution of kthreads to CPUs is fixed.
I also disabled "irq balance" and "numa balance" daemons, fixed the
frequency to 1.5GHz using the "userspace" cpufreq governor and isolated
all the cores used (using isolcpus=1-95 at boot-time) to avoid any
source of interference.

As a warm-up phase, I ignored the first reported results and only
considered the latest 60 seconds of execution (after all kthreads
migrated to their final CPU).
The reported throughput is computed by dividing the reported number of
operations by the duration of the measurement for each dot (60 seconds),
so higher is better.

Here follows the results on taishan200-96c (the 'rel' column is the mean
relative to the mean of the stock kernel, in percent, and each mean is
the average over 5 independent runs):

Kernel:             k0-stock-6.2.0-rc6       k1-rmacq             k2-readonce             k3-alongor             k4-rmacq+readonce             k5-rmacq+alongor            
Statistic (kops/s):               mean   std     mean   std   rel        mean   std   rel       mean   std   rel              mean   std   rel             mean   std   rel
nwriters_stress:                                                                                                                                                           
1                               899.91 24.95   880.10 29.62   -2%      871.57 44.27   -3%     888.65 37.90   -1%            898.63 29.82   -0%           889.83 25.64   -1%
2                               359.30 25.92   416.83 32.77  +16%      360.65 28.32   +0%     404.79 42.64  +13%            380.65 21.29   +6%           404.37 23.27  +13%
3                               314.97 24.32   308.41  9.68   -2%      315.00  9.97   +0%     313.86 13.47   -0%            313.47  4.01   -0%           322.77 20.82   +2%
4                               328.02 15.09   330.65 29.33   +1%      314.83 24.28   -4%     305.71 12.72   -7%            322.95 10.39   -2%           343.32 13.73   +5%
8                               292.16 22.03   288.85 10.50   -1%      288.28 18.84   -1%     285.42 24.58   -2%            310.23 26.08   +6%           285.67 20.03   -2%
16                              297.03 26.89   281.89 29.22   -5%      265.19 33.73  -11%     279.02 22.43   -6%            284.40 36.21   -4%           285.21 36.33   -4%
32                              187.36 28.59   175.71 19.77   -6%      186.44 48.15   -0%     206.59 14.11  +10%            174.08 24.30   -7%           185.80 45.12   -1%
64                              148.13 48.65   172.48 34.29  +16%      154.59 47.05   +4%     164.22 29.81  +11%            142.13 47.40   -4%           136.39 29.95   -8%
95                              174.35 57.89   148.59 38.03  -15%      156.85 43.64  -10%     132.92 32.35  -24%            126.44 28.24  -27%           146.82 60.04  -16%

And the results on gigabyte-96c:

Kernel:             k0-stock-6.2.0-rc6       k1-rmacq               k2-readonce             k3-alongor             k4-rmacq+readonce             k5-rmacq+alongor            
Statistic (kops/s):               mean   std     mean    std    rel        mean   std   rel       mean   std   rel              mean   std   rel             mean    std  rel
nwriters_stress:                                                                                                                                                             
1                               713.72 25.68   707.32  17.73    -1%      718.81 12.63   +1%     712.80 13.57   -0%            709.17 14.10   -1%           730.33   9.14  +2%
2                               376.25  8.19   400.09  16.24    +6%      396.71 26.09   +5%     412.61 17.80  +10%            396.48  7.02   +5%           409.90  14.61  +9%
3                               415.07 16.83   410.19  19.82    -1%      423.39  9.68   +2%     417.28 10.23   +1%            424.94 17.48   +2%           422.92  11.75  +2%
4                               286.77 26.63   285.13   6.80    -1%      297.33 23.62   +4%     296.49 16.60   +3%            303.99 30.38   +6%           296.93   9.90  +4%
8                               296.56 20.45   308.97  12.53    +4%      305.49 19.91   +3%     294.24 17.24   -1%            294.71 24.03   -1%           294.09  25.20  -1%
16                              257.34 33.94   266.03  29.60    +3%      270.72 35.22   +5%     252.28 50.16   -2%            263.83 45.84   +3%           247.42  41.01  -4%
32                              278.78 51.45   215.35  68.40   -23%      259.77 87.44   -7%     217.26 79.67  -22%            201.23 70.46  -28%           282.47 116.65  +1%
64                               75.82 64.87   194.52 137.19  +157%       35.57 12.14  -53%      74.24 72.04   -2%             71.29 45.55   -6%            77.93  43.57  +3%
95                               60.37 68.13   198.38 116.93  +229%       43.12 17.60  -29%      58.80 36.47   -3%             57.78 63.00   -4%            61.33  71.18  +2%

We can safely conclude that the patches do not significatively affect
the throughput of the lock_torture benchmark for rtmutex_lock.
The values for nwriters_stress>=64 can safely be ignored as they are too
spread.

Please notice that I pushed a landing page [6] with results in HTML that
may be more convenient to browse together with interactive charts.

Cheers,

Antonio

[1] https://e.huawei.com/uk/products/servers/taishan-server/taishan-2280-v2
[2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hisilicon/kunpeng/920-4826
[3] https://www.gigabyte.com/Rack-Server/R182-Z91-rev-100
[4] https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7352
[5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/22/160
[6] https://antonio.paolillo.be/public/rtlocks-locktorture-patches.html

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