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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:03:04 +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 Jul 21, 2023, at 7:01 AM, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Saeed,
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 01:04, Saeed Mirzamohammadi
> <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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--;
>> 
> 
> Is the regression still there if you only apply the partial revert
> below but not the above part ?
Regression is still gone after I added back the following change from partial revert:

+       if (task_on_rq_migrating(p))
+               flags |= ENQUEUE_MIGRATED;
+

So this partial revert below is fixing the regression:

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index e19fe88914574..ccc0acd477a09 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -3777,9 +3777,6 @@ 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);
@@ -6180,6 +6177,9 @@ 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)


> I have rechecked the code but can't see any obvious reason why there
> is a regression on v5.4 and not on v5.15.
> 
>> 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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