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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Julian Pidancet <julian.pidancet@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	 "Lameter, Christopher" <cl@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	 Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	 Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	 Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slub: disable slab merging in the default configuration
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 00:38:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17349901-df3a-494e-fa71-2584d92526b5@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8813897d-4a52-37a0-fe44-a9157716be9b@google.com>

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023, David Rientjes wrote:

> hackbench

Running hackbench on Skylake with v6.1.30 (A) and v6.1.30 + your patch 
(B), for example:

              LABEL             | COUNT |    MIN     |    MAX     |    MEAN    |   MEDIAN   |  STDDEV   |   DIRECTION    
--------------------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------------
  SReclaimable                  |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 11    | 129480.000 | 233208.000 | 189936.364 | 204316.000 | 31465.625 |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 11    | 139084.000 | 236772.000 | 198931.273 | 213672.000 | 30013.204 |                
                                |       | +7.42%     | +1.53%     | +4.74%     | +4.58%     | -4.62%    | <not defined>  
  SUnreclaim                    |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 11    | 305400.000 | 538744.000 | 422148.000 | 449344.000 | 65005.045 |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 11    | 305780.000 | 518300.000 | 422219.636 | 450252.000 | 61245.137 |                
                                |       | +0.12%     | -3.79%     | +0.02%     | +0.20%     | -5.78%    | <not defined>  

Amount of reclaimable slab significantly increases which is likely not a 
problem because, well, it's reclaimable.  But I suspect we'll find other 
interesting data points with the other suggested benchmarks.

And benchmark results:

              LABEL             | COUNT |    MIN     |    MAX     |    MEAN    |   MEDIAN   |  STDDEV   |   DIRECTION    
--------------------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------------
  hackbench_process_pipes_234   |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 1.735      | 1.979      | 1.831      | 1.835      | 0.086291  |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 1.687      | 2.023      | 1.886      | 1.911      | 0.10276   |                
                                |       | -2.77%     | +2.22%     | +3.00%     | +4.14%     | +19.09%   | <not defined>  
  hackbench_process_pipes_max   |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 1.735      | 1.979      | 1.831      | 1.835      | 0.086291  |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 1.687      | 2.023      | 1.886      | 1.911      | 0.10276   |                
                                |       | -2.77%     | +2.22%     | +3.00%     | +4.14%     | +19.09%   | - is good      
  hackbench_process_sockets_234 |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 7.883      | 7.909      | 7.899      | 7.899      | 0.0087808 |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 7.872      | 7.961      | 7.907      | 7.904      | 0.028019  |                
                                |       | -0.14%     | +0.66%     | +0.10%     | +0.06%     | +219.09%  | <not defined>  
  hackbench_process_sockets_max |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 7.883      | 7.909      | 7.899      | 7.899      | 0.0087808 |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 7.872      | 7.961      | 7.907      | 7.904      | 0.028019  |                
                                |       | -0.14%     | +0.66%     | +0.10%     | +0.06%     | +219.09%  | - is good      
  hackbench_thread_pipes_234    |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 2.146      | 2.677      | 2.410      | 2.418      | 0.18143   |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 2.016      | 2.514      | 2.268      | 2.241      | 0.17474   |                
                                |       | -6.06%     | -6.09%     | -5.88%     | -7.32%     | -3.69%    | <not defined>  
  hackbench_thread_pipes_max    |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 2.146      | 2.677      | 2.410      | 2.418      | 0.18143   |               
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 2.016      | 2.514      | 2.268      | 2.241      | 0.17474   |                
                                |       | -6.06%     | -6.09%     | -5.88%     | -7.32%     | -3.69%    | - is good      
  hackbench_thread_sockets_234  |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 8.025      | 8.127      | 8.084      | 8.085      | 0.029755  |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 7.990      | 8.093      | 8.042      | 8.035      | 0.035152  |                
                                |       | -0.44%     | -0.42%     | -0.53%     | -0.62%     | +18.14%   | <not defined>  
  hackbench_thread_sockets_max  |       |            |            |            |            |           |                
  (A) v6.1.30                   | 7     | 8.025      | 8.127      | 8.084      | 8.085      | 0.029755  |                
  (B) <same sha>                | 7     | 7.990      | 8.093      | 8.042      | 8.035      | 0.035152  |                
                                |       | -0.44%     | -0.42%     | -0.53%     | -0.62%     | +18.14%   | - is good    


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-06  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-29 22:19 [PATCH v2] mm/slub: disable slab merging in the default configuration Julian Pidancet
2023-07-03  0:09 ` David Rientjes
2023-07-03 10:33   ` Julian Pidancet
2023-07-03 18:38     ` Kees Cook
2023-07-03 20:17     ` David Rientjes
2023-07-06  7:38       ` David Rientjes [this message]
2023-07-09  8:55         ` David Rientjes
2023-07-10  2:40           ` David Rientjes
2023-07-18 12:08             ` Julian Pidancet
2023-07-25 23:25               ` David Rientjes
2023-07-26  8:34                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-07-10 14:56       ` Vlastimil Babka

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