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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:33:32 +0530
From: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>
Cc: mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com,
vincent.guittot@...aro.org, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2] sched/fair: inline cpu_util_without and
cpu_util to improve performance
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 05:24:00PM GMT, Li Zetao wrote:
> The commit 3eb6d6ececca ("sched/fair: Refactor CPU utilization functions")
> refactored cpu_util_without and cpu_util functions. Since the size of
> cpu_util function has increased, the inline cpu_util is dropped. This had
> a negative impact on performance, in the scenario of updating
> sched_group's statistics, cpu_util_without and cpu_util functions are on
> the hotspot path.
>
> Inlining cpu_util_without and cpu_util functions have been shown to
> significantly improve performance in lmbench as follow:
>
> Machine: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz
> before after diff
> fork+exit 317.0625 303.6667 -4.22%
> fork+execve 1482.5000 1407.0000 -5.09%
> fork+/bin/sh 2096.0000 2020.3333 -3.61%
>
> This patch introduces inlining to cpu_util_without and cpu_util functions.
> While this increases the size of kernel/sched/fair.o, the performance
> gains in critical workloads make this an acceptable trade-off.
>
> Size comparison before and after patch:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 0x1264a 0x1506 0xb0 80896 13c00 kernel/sched/fair.o.before
> 0x12672 0x14fe 0xb0 80928 13c20 kernel/sched/fair.o.after
>
> Co-developed-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiao <zhangqiao22@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@...wei.com>
I ran the same tests on lmbench on Power9 (ppc64le)
Size Comparison
text data bss dec hex filename
before 111311 14943 440 126694 1eee6 kernel/sched/fair.o.before
after 111679 14903 440 127022 1f02e kernel/sched/fair.o.after
Test comparison
before after % diff
fork+exit 698.375 688 -1.51%
fork+execve 2748 2730.5 -0.64%
fork+/bin/sh -c 4298 4293.5 -0.10%
Tested-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mchauras@...ux.ibm.com>
Thanks,
Mukesh
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