NUMA schedulers tests

[Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>]

Hi,

here is a set of measurements for three benchmarks and five schedulers.
They were performed on an NEC Azusa, 16 CPU Itanium machine with NUMA
architecture, 4 CPUs per node, 4 nodes with 8GB memory each.

The benchmarks are:
- hackbench: a variant of the wellknown chatroom benchmark
- numa_test: runs a certain number of memory bandwidth hungry and latency
  dependent processes in parallel
- kernbench: parallel kernel compile (5 times, make -j24, compile an ia64
  2.4.18 kernel with gcc 2.96. As gcc's speed is VERY dependent on the
  number of registers of the target architecture, the results are not
  comparable to i386 compiles.)

Schedulers tested (all on top of discontigmem for ia64):

A: vanilla O(1) scheduler from 2.5.39
B: Michael Hohnbaums simple NUMA scheduler (latest published rev 2)
C: pooling NUMA scheduler with initial load balancing (patches 01+02
   from the 5 patches sent out)
D: node affine NUMA scheduler (patches 01+02+03)
E: node affine NUMA scheduler with dynamic homenode (patches 01+02+03+05)

All results are averages over several measurements, the numbers in braces
are the standard deviation or "error bars".

There's a lot to say about the results, e.g that E is the best because it
has most features. But the only comment I really want to make on this now
is: the numa_test is not good enough for testing node affinity as
"hackbench 20" doesn't seem to disturb the initialy balance too much.
I'll improve this to make it more realistic. Otherwise it's good enough
to see the advantage of not moving around tasks across the nodes.

Best regards,
Erich

Hackbench: (averages over 4 tests, execution time)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
N:	10		25		50		100
A	5.54(0.10)	15.28(0.03)	32.65(0.35)	67.67(0.69)
B	5.37(0.06)	15.13(0.44)	31.96(0.49)	67.14(0.43)
C	1.31(0.08)	 2.91(0.12)	 5.95(0.13)	13.37(0.11)
D	2.45(0.44)	 8.89(1.47)	21.98(1.08)	30.57(17.10)
E	1.39(0.08)	 2.92(0.09)	 6.20(0.34)	14.30(0.28)


numa_test: N=4
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	Elapsed		AvgUserTime	TotUserTime	TotSysTime	Runs
A	42.95(3.23)	30.40(1.16)	121.65(4.62)			10
B	35.08(2.24)	28.51(0.77)	114.10(3.07)	0.19(0.03)	20
C	27.44(0.06)	27.14(0.04)	108.62(0.15)	0.16(0.01)	20
D	27.42(0.08)	27.10(0.04)	108.48(0.14)	0.15(0.01)	20
E	27.50(0.23)	27.10(0.03)	108.48(0.13)	0.15(0.01)	20


numa_test: N=8
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	Elapsed		AvgUserTime	TotUserTime	TotSysTime	Runs
A	42.75(2.31)	31.34(0.93)	250.82(7.46)			10
B	34.82(2.74)	29.76(0.67)	238.19(5.34)	0.44(0.04)	20
C	29.29(0.47)	28.80(0.14)	230.55(1.13)	0.35(0.02)	20
D	29.23(0.40)	28.76(0.12)	230.20(0.92)	0.34(0.02)	20
E	29.08(0.06)	28.76(0.03)	230.22(0.27)	0.34(0.01)	20


numa_test: N=16
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	Elapsed		AvgUserTime	TotUserTime	TotSysTime	Runs
A	47.02(0.88)	33.80(0.90)	541.15(14.47)			10
B	41.82(8.26)	32.04(0.47)	512.91(7.57)	1.08(0.05)	20
C	41.30(5.50)	31.80(0.18)	509.11(2.84)	1.00(0.05)	20
D	39.89(6.42)	31.80(0.10)	509.13(1.67)	0.95(0.03)	20
E	41.61(5.42)	31.76(0.27)	508.44(4.32)	0.96(0.04)	20


numa_test: N=32
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	Elapsed		AvgUserTime	TotUserTime	TotSysTime	Runs
A	83.52(2.25)	37.44(1.16)	1198.57(37.18)			10
B	80.33(4.35)	33.86(0.60)	1083.94(19.07)	2.13(0.06)	10
C	77.84(4.10)	33.58(0.36)	1074.82(11.47)			4
D	73.59(6.31)	33.20(0.11)	1062.88(3.38)			4
E	69.86(0.41)	33.26(0.06)	1064.72(1.88)	2.01(0.03)	10


numa_test: N=64
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	Elapsed		AvgUserTime	TotUserTime	TotSysTime	Runs
A	164.15(3.40)	38.73(0.77)	2479.61(49.41)			10
B	149.63(2.89)	34.61(0.40)	2215.80(25.42)	4.28(0.06)	10
C	147.22(1.82)	34.41(0.13)	2202.88(8.39)			4
D	139.32(5.26)	33.37(0.05)	2136.66(3.59)			4
E	137.10(2.15)	33.40(0.02)	2138.13(1.37)	4.08(0.05)	10


Kernbench: (averages over 5 compiles)
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	Elapsed		UserTime	SysTime
A	93.78(0.43)	1321.05(1.20)	49.31(0.14)
B	93.47(1.57)	1303.11(0.53)	52.27(0.46)
C	92.67(1.08)	1304.09(0.74)	52.79(0.32)
D	93.19(1.45)	1300.30(0.89)	52.46(0.20)
E	93.63(1.00)	1299.44(0.67)	52.81(0.19)