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Message-ID: <2c5df9e0-9b1f-89eb-4d64-c5091ead9cf0@linux.dev>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2023 19:22:55 +0800
From:   Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@...ux.dev>
To:     RCU <rcu@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     oe-lkp@...ts.linux.dev, lkp@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...ru>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        ying.huang@...el.com, feng.tang@...el.com, fengwei.yin@...el.com,
        Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [linus:master] [mm] f95bdb700b: stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec
 -88.8% regression



On 2023/5/24 19:08, Qi Zheng wrote:
> 

[...]

> 
> Well, I just ran the following command and reproduced the result:
> 
> stress-ng --timeout 60 --times --verify --metrics-brief --ramfs 9 &
> 
> 1) with commit 42c9db3970483:
> 
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] setting to a 60 second run per stressor
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] dispatching hogs: 9 ramfs
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] stressor       bogo ops real time  usr time 
> sys time   bogo ops/s     bogo ops/s
> stress-ng: info:  [11023]                           (secs)    (secs) 
> (secs)   (real time) (usr+sys time)
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] ramfs            774966     60.00     10.18 
> 169.45     12915.89        4314.26
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] for a 60.00s run time:
> stress-ng: info:  [11023]    1920.11s available CPU time
> stress-ng: info:  [11023]      10.18s user time   (  0.53%)
> stress-ng: info:  [11023]     169.44s system time (  8.82%)
> stress-ng: info:  [11023]     179.62s total time  (  9.35%)
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] load average: 8.99 2.69 0.93
> stress-ng: info:  [11023] successful run completed in 60.00s (1 min, 
> 0.00 secs)
> 
> 2) with commit f95bdb700bc6b:
> 
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] dispatching hogs: 9 ramfs
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] stressor       bogo ops real time  usr time 
> sys time   bogo ops/s     bogo ops/s
> stress-ng: info:  [37676]                           (secs)    (secs) 
> (secs)   (real time) (usr+sys time)
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] ramfs            168673     60.00      1.61 
>   39.66      2811.08        4087.47
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] for a 60.10s run time:
> stress-ng: info:  [37676]    1923.36s available CPU time
> stress-ng: info:  [37676]       1.60s user time   (  0.08%)
> stress-ng: info:  [37676]      39.66s system time (  2.06%)
> stress-ng: info:  [37676]      41.26s total time  (  2.15%)
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] load average: 7.69 3.63 2.36
> stress-ng: info:  [37676] successful run completed in 60.10s (1 min, 
> 0.10 secs)
> 
> The bogo ops/s (real time) did drop significantly.
> 
> And the memory reclaimation was not triggered in the whole process. so
> theoretically no one is in the read critical section of shrinker_srcu.
> 
> Then I found that some stress-ng-ramfs processes were in
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for a long time:
> 
> root       42313  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42314  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42315  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42316  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42317  7.8  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42318  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42319  7.8  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42320  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42321  7.8  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42322  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42323  7.8  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42324  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42325  7.8  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42326  0.0  0.0  69592  2068 pts/0    S    19:00   0:00 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42327  7.9  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42328  7.9  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42329  7.9  0.0  69592  1812 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> root       42330  7.9  0.0  69592  1556 pts/0    D    19:00   0:02 
> stress-ng-ramfs [run]
> 
> Their call stack is as follows:
> 
> cat /proc/42330/stack
> 
> [<0>] __synchronize_srcu.part.21+0x83/0xb0
> [<0>] unregister_shrinker+0x85/0xb0
> [<0>] deactivate_locked_super+0x27/0x70
> [<0>] cleanup_mnt+0xb8/0x140
> [<0>] task_work_run+0x65/0x90
> [<0>] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1ba/0x1c0
> [<0>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1b/0x40
> [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x44/0x80
> [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> 
> + RCU folks, Is this result as expected? I would have thought that
> synchronize_srcu() should return quickly if no one is in the read
> critical section. :(
> 

I received the message:
	BOUNCE rcu@...r.kernel.org: Message too long (>100000 chars)

So add RCU folks again.

-- 
Thanks,
Qi

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