From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Ivan Babrou" <ivan@cloudflare.com>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
kernel-team@cloudflare.com, "Wei Xu" <weixugc@google.com>,
"Greg Thelen" <gthelen@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 06:35:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALvZod6zssp88j6e6EKTbu_oHS7iW5ocdTWH7f27Hg0byzut6g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJD7tkbSBtNJv__uZT+uh9ie=-WeqPe9oBinGOH2wuZzJMvCAw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 1:04 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 8:13 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 5:46 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 6:48 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 5:36 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 03:21:47PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I tried this on a machine with 72 cpus (also ixion), running both
> > > > > > netserver and netperf in /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c/d as follows:
> > > > > > # echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
> > > > > > # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/a
> > > > > > # echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/a/cgroup.subtree_control
> > > > > > # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b
> > > > > > # echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/cgroup.subtree_control
> > > > > > # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c
> > > > > > # echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c/cgroup.subtree_control
> > > > > > # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c/d
> > > > > > # echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c/d/cgroup.procs
> > > > > > # ./netserver -6
> > > > > >
> > > > > > # echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b/c/d/cgroup.procs
> > > > > > # for i in $(seq 10); do ./netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE --
> > > > > > -m 10K; done
> > > > >
> > > > > You are missing '&' at the end. Use something like below:
> > > > >
> > > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > > for i in {1..22}
> > > > > do
> > > > > /data/tmp/netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K &
> > > > > done
> > > > > wait
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh sorry I missed the fact that you are running instances in parallel, my bad.
> > > >
> > > > So I ran 36 instances on a machine with 72 cpus. I did this 10 times
> > > > and got an average from all instances for all runs to reduce noise:
> > > >
> > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > >
> > > > ITER=10
> > > > NR_INSTANCES=36
> > > >
> > > > for i in $(seq $ITER); do
> > > > echo "iteration $i"
> > > > for j in $(seq $NR_INSTANCES); do
> > > > echo "iteration $i" >> "out$j"
> > > > ./netperf -6 -H ::1 -l 60 -t TCP_SENDFILE -- -m 10K >> "out$j" &
> > > > done
> > > > wait
> > > > done
> > > >
> > > > cat out* | grep 540000 | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum/NR}'
> > > >
> > > > Base: 22169 mbps
> > > > Patched: 21331.9 mbps
> > > >
> > > > The difference is ~3.7% in my runs. I am not sure what's different.
> > > > Perhaps it's the number of runs?
> > >
> > > My base kernel is next-20231009 and I am running experiments with
> > > hyperthreading disabled.
> >
> > Using next-20231009 and a similar 44 core machine with hyperthreading
> > disabled, I ran 22 instances of netperf in parallel and got the
> > following numbers from averaging 20 runs:
> >
> > Base: 33076.5 mbps
> > Patched: 31410.1 mbps
> >
> > That's about 5% diff. I guess the number of iterations helps reduce
> > the noise? I am not sure.
> >
> > Please also keep in mind that in this case all netperf instances are
> > in the same cgroup and at a 4-level depth. I imagine in a practical
> > setup processes would be a little more spread out, which means less
> > common ancestors, so less contended atomic operations.
>
>
> (Resending the reply as I messed up the last one, was not in plain text)
>
> I was curious, so I ran the same testing in a cgroup 2 levels deep
> (i.e /sys/fs/cgroup/a/b), which is a much more common setup in my
> experience. Here are the numbers:
>
> Base: 40198.0 mbps
> Patched: 38629.7 mbps
>
> The regression is reduced to ~3.9%.
>
> What's more interesting is that going from a level 2 cgroup to a level
> 4 cgroup is already a big hit with or without this patch:
>
> Base: 40198.0 -> 33076.5 mbps (~17.7% regression)
> Patched: 38629.7 -> 31410.1 (~18.7% regression)
>
> So going from level 2 to 4 is already a significant regression for
> other reasons (e.g. hierarchical charging). This patch only makes it
> marginally worse. This puts the numbers more into perspective imo than
> comparing values at level 4. What do you think?
This is weird as we are running the experiments on the same machine. I
will rerun with 2 levels as well. Also can you rerun the page fault
benchmark as well which was showing 9% regression in your original
commit message?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-12 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-10 3:21 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: memcg: change flush_next_time to flush_last_time Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: memcg: move vmstats structs definition above flushing code Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: memcg: make stats flushing threshold per-memcg Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:24 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 20:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-10 21:02 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 22:21 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-11 0:36 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-11 1:48 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-11 12:45 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 3:13 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 8:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 8:04 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 13:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-10-12 23:28 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-13 2:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2023-10-13 2:38 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 13:35 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2023-10-12 15:10 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:05 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:16 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 21:19 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-12 21:38 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-12 22:23 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-14 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2023-10-16 18:42 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-17 23:52 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-18 8:22 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-18 8:54 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-20 16:17 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-20 17:23 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-20 17:42 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-23 1:25 ` Feng Tang
2023-10-23 18:25 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-24 2:13 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-24 6:56 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-24 7:14 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-25 6:09 ` Oliver Sang
2023-10-25 6:22 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-25 17:06 ` Shakeel Butt
2023-10-25 18:36 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: workingset: move the stats flush into workingset_test_recent() Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 3:21 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm: memcg: restore subtree stats flushing Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-10 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds domenico cerasuolo
2023-10-10 19:01 ` Yosry Ahmed
2023-10-18 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
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