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Message-ID: <CFDAB0A8-9131-408A-97EB-2F4F8E20E86B@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 23:04:10 +0000
From:   Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
CC:     Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "zhangqiao22@...wei.com" <zhangqiao22@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: Reporting a performance regression in sched/fair on Unixbench
 Shell Scripts with commit a53ce18cacb4

Hi Vincent,

> On Jun 30, 2023, at 1:28 AM, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 00:20, Saeed Mirzamohammadi
> <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 21, 2023, at 9:41 AM, Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Chen, Vincent,
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 13, 2023, at 11:37 PM, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 2023-06-13 at 19:35:55 +0000, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote:
>>>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jun 9, 2023, at 9:52 AM, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Saeed,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 00:48, Saeed Mirzamohammadi
>>>>>> <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I’m reporting a regression of up to 8% with Unixbench Shell Scripts benchmarks after the following commit:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Commit Data:
>>>>>>> commit-id        : a53ce18cacb477dd0513c607f187d16f0fa96f71
>>>>>>> subject          : sched/fair: Sanitize vruntime of entity being migrated
>>>>>>> author           : vincent.guittot@...aro.org
>>>>>>> author date      : 2023-03-17 16:08:10
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We have observed this on our v5.4 and v4.14 kernel and not yet tested 5.15 but I expect the same.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It would be good to confirm that the regression is present on v6.3
>>>>>> where the patch has been merged originally.  It can be that there is
>>>>>> hidden dependency with other patches introduced since v5.4
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regression is present on v6.3 as well, examples:
>>>>> ub_gcc_224copies_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent: ~6%
>>>>> ub_gcc_224copies_Shell_Scripts_16_concurrent: ~8%
>>>>> ub_gcc_448copies_Shell_Scripts_1_concurrent: ~2%
>>> 
>>> Apologize for the confusion, I should correct the v6.3 upstream result above. v6.3 doesn’t have any regression.
>>> v6.3.y -> no regression
>>> v5.15.y -> no regression
>>> v5.4.y -> 5-8% regression.
>> 
>> A gentle reminder if there is any recommendation for v5.4.y and v4.14.y regression. Thanks!
> 
> I tried to find why the regression happens only for v5.4.y (or lower)
> and not for v5.15.y (or above) but I haven't been able to find any
> possible reason in the code.
> 
> Regarding the 2 commits below, they must come together so we can't
> simply revert 1 and not the other.
> commit 829c1651e9c4 sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
> commit a53ce18cacb4 sched/fair: Sanitize vruntime of entity being migrated
> 
Tests were done before and after these 2 commits.

> entity_is_long_sleeper() should never return true in your case. Could
> you try to check that it's the case for you ?
> 
Tested this and entity_is_long_sleeper() never returns True.

I actually removed the related part, tested, and the regression is gone with the following change (partial revert):

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3ebd2054996bc..0d70dd6e14844 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -792,9 +792,6 @@ static inline void dequeue_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 
 void activate_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags)
 {
-       if (task_on_rq_migrating(p))
-               flags |= ENQUEUE_MIGRATED;
-
        if (task_contributes_to_load(p))
                rq->nr_uninterruptible--;
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 83a7cf62c0f53..ef9aca05c7bdf 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3779,9 +3779,6 @@ enqueue_entity(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se, int flags)
 
        if (flags & ENQUEUE_WAKEUP)
                place_entity(cfs_rq, se, 0);
-       /* Entity has migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
-       if (flags & ENQUEUE_MIGRATED)
-               se->exec_start = 0;
 
        check_schedstat_required();
        update_stats_enqueue(cfs_rq, se, flags);
@@ -6182,6 +6179,9 @@ static void migrate_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p)
 
        /* Tell new CPU we are migrated */
        p->se.avg.last_update_time = 0;
+
+       /* We have migrated, no longer consider this task hot */
+       p->se.exec_start = 0;
 }
 
 static void task_dead_fair(struct task_struct *p)


> 
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_1copy_Shell_Scripts_1_concurrent  :  -0.01%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_1copy_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent  :  -0.1%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_1copy_Shell_Scripts_16_concurrent  :  -0.12%%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_56copies_Shell_Scripts_1_concurrent  :  -2.29%%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_56copies_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent  :  -4.22%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_56copies_Shell_Scripts_16_concurrent  :  -4.23%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_224copies_Shell_Scripts_1_concurrent  :  -5.54%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_224copies_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent  :  -8%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_224copies_Shell_Scripts_16_concurrent  :  -7.05%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_448copies_Shell_Scripts_1_concurrent  :  -6.4%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_448copies_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent  :  -8.35%
>>>>>>> ub_gcc_448copies_Shell_Scripts_16_concurrent  :  -7.09%
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Link to unixbench:
>>>>>>> github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I tried to reproduce the problem with v6.3 on my system but I don't
>>>>>> see any difference with or without the patch
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you have more details on your setup ? number of cpu and topology ?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> model name  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
>>>>> 
>>>>> Topology:
>>>>> node   0   1
>>>>> 0:  10  21
>>>>> 1:  21  10
>>>>> 
>>>>> Architecture:          x86_64
>>>>> CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
>>>>> CPU(s):                56
>>>>> On-line CPU(s) list:   0-55
>>>>> Thread(s) per core:    2
>>>>> Core(s) per socket:    14
>>>>> Socket(s):             2
>>>>> NUMA node(s):          2
>>>>> 
>>>> Tested on a similar platform E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz which has 2 nodes,
>>>> 24 cores/48 CPUs in total, however I could not reproduce the issue.
>>>> Since the regression was reported mainly against 224 and 448 copies case
>>>> on your platform, I tested unixbench shell1 with 4 x 48 = 192 copies.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> a53ce18cacb477dd 213acadd21a080fc8cda8eebe6d
>>>> ---------------- ---------------------------
>>>>       %stddev     %change         %stddev
>>>>           \          |                \
>>>>   21304            +0.5%      21420        unixbench.score
>>>>  632.43            +0.0%     632.44        unixbench.time.elapsed_time
>>>>  632.43            +0.0%     632.44        unixbench.time.elapsed_time.max
>>>> 11837046            -4.7%   11277727        unixbench.time.involuntary_context_switches
>>>>  864713            +0.1%     865914        unixbench.time.major_page_faults
>>>>    9600            +4.0%       9984        unixbench.time.maximum_resident_set_size
>>>> 8.433e+08            +0.6%   8.48e+08        unixbench.time.minor_page_faults
>>>>    4096            +0.0%       4096        unixbench.time.page_size
>>>>    3741            +1.1%       3783        unixbench.time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
>>>>   18341            +1.3%      18572        unixbench.time.system_time
>>>>    5323            +0.6%       5353        unixbench.time.user_time
>>>> 78197044            -3.1%   75791701        unixbench.time.voluntary_context_switches
>>>> 57178573            +0.4%   57399061        unixbench.workload
>>>> 
>>>> There is no much difference with a53ce18cacb477dd applied or not.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> a2e90611b9f425ad 829c1651e9c4a6f78398d3e6765
>>>> ---------------- ---------------------------
>>>>       %stddev     %change         %stddev
>>>>           \          |                \
>>>>   19985            +8.6%      21697        unixbench.score
>>>>  632.64            -0.0%     632.53        unixbench.time.elapsed_time
>>>>  632.64            -0.0%     632.53        unixbench.time.elapsed_time.max
>>>> 11453985            +3.7%   11880259        unixbench.time.involuntary_context_switches
>>>>  818996            +3.1%     844681        unixbench.time.major_page_faults
>>>>    9600            +0.0%       9600        unixbench.time.maximum_resident_set_size
>>>> 7.911e+08            +8.4%  8.575e+08        unixbench.time.minor_page_faults
>>>>    4096            +0.0%       4096        unixbench.time.page_size
>>>>    3767            -0.4%       3752        unixbench.time.percent_of_cpu_this_job_got
>>>>   18873            -2.4%      18423        unixbench.time.system_time
>>>>    4960            +7.1%       5313        unixbench.time.user_time
>>>> 75436000           +10.8%   83581483        unixbench.time.voluntary_context_switches
>>>> 53553404            +8.7%   58235303        unixbench.workload
>>>> 
>>>> Previously with 829c1651e9c4a6f introduced, there is 8.6% improvement. And this improvement
>>>> remains with a53ce18cacb477dd applied.
>>>> 
>>>> Can you send the full test script so I can have a try locally?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for testing this. For v5.4.y kernel (not for v6.3.y or v5.15.y), there is an 8% regression with the following test: ub_gcc_448copies_Shell_Scripts_8_concurrent
>>> And that’s ’shell8’ with ‘-c 448’ copies passed as argument.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Saeed
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Chenyu

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