From: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
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paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/25] Speculative page faults
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 16:45:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef94f4f-800e-9994-d926-a71b80552ebc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmdynnv4.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
On 02/05/2018 16:17, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> One query below -
>
> Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> Ebizzy:
>> -------
>> The test is counting the number of records per second it can manage, the
>> higher is the best. I run it like this 'ebizzy -mTRp'. To get consistent
>> result I repeated the test 100 times and measure the average result. The
>> number is the record processes per second, the higher is the best.
>>
>> BASE SPF delta
>> 16 CPUs x86 VM 12405.52 91104.52 634.39%
>> 80 CPUs P8 node 37880.01 76201.05 101.16%
>
> How do you measure the number of records processed? Is there a specific
> version of ebizzy that reports this? I couldn't find a way to get this
> information with the ebizzy that's included in ltp.
I'm using the original one : http://ebizzy.sourceforge.net/
>
>>
>> Here are the performance counter read during a run on a 16 CPUs x86 VM:
>> Performance counter stats for './ebizzy -mRTp':
>> 860074 faults
>> 856866 spf
>> 285 pagefault:spf_pte_lock
>> 1506 pagefault:spf_vma_changed
>> 0 pagefault:spf_vma_noanon
>> 73 pagefault:spf_vma_notsup
>> 0 pagefault:spf_vma_access
>> 0 pagefault:spf_pmd_changed
>>
>> And the ones captured during a run on a 80 CPUs Power node:
>> Performance counter stats for './ebizzy -mRTp':
>> 722695 faults
>> 699402 spf
>> 16048 pagefault:spf_pte_lock
>> 6838 pagefault:spf_vma_changed
>> 0 pagefault:spf_vma_noanon
>> 277 pagefault:spf_vma_notsup
>> 0 pagefault:spf_vma_access
>> 0 pagefault:spf_pmd_changed
>>
>> In ebizzy's case most of the page fault were handled in a speculative way,
>> leading the ebizzy performance boost.
>
> A trial run showed increased fault handling when SPF is enabled on an
> 8-core ARM64 system running 4.17-rc3. I am using a port of your x86
> patch to enable spf on arm64.
>
> SPF
> ---
>
> Performance counter stats for './ebizzy -vvvmTRp':
>
> 1,322,736 faults
> 1,299,241 software/config=11/
>
> 10.005348034 seconds time elapsed
>
> No SPF
> -----
>
> Performance counter stats for './ebizzy -vvvmTRp':
>
> 708,916 faults
> 0 software/config=11/
>
> 10.005807432 seconds time elapsed
Thanks for sharing these good numbers !
> Thanks,
> Punit
>
> [...]
>
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-17 14:33 [PATCH v10 00/25] Speculative page faults Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 01/25] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Laurent Dufour
2018-04-23 5:58 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-23 15:10 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 02/25] x86/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Laurent Dufour
2018-05-08 11:04 ` Punit Agrawal
2018-05-14 14:47 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-05-14 15:05 ` Punit Agrawal
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 03/25] powerpc/mm: set ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 04/25] mm: prepare for FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 05/25] mm: introduce pte_spinlock " Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 06/25] mm: make pte_unmap_same compatible with SPF Laurent Dufour
2018-04-23 6:31 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-30 14:07 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-05-01 13:04 ` Minchan Kim
2018-05-10 16:15 ` vinayak menon
2018-05-14 15:09 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 07/25] mm: introduce INIT_VMA() Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 08/25] mm: VMA sequence count Laurent Dufour
2018-04-23 6:42 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-30 15:14 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-05-01 13:16 ` Minchan Kim
2018-05-03 14:45 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 09/25] mm: protect VMA modifications using " Laurent Dufour
2018-04-23 7:19 ` Minchan Kim
2018-05-14 15:25 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 10/25] mm: protect mremap() against SPF hanlder Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 11/25] mm: protect SPF handler against anon_vma changes Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 12/25] mm: cache some VMA fields in the vm_fault structure Laurent Dufour
2018-04-23 7:42 ` Minchan Kim
2018-05-03 12:25 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-05-03 15:42 ` Minchan Kim
2018-05-04 9:10 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-05-08 10:56 ` Minchan Kim
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 13/25] mm/migrate: Pass vm_fault pointer to migrate_misplaced_page() Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 14/25] mm: introduce __lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 15/25] mm: introduce __vm_normal_page() Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 16/25] mm: introduce __page_add_new_anon_rmap() Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 17/25] mm: protect mm_rb tree with a rwlock Laurent Dufour
2018-04-30 18:47 ` Punit Agrawal
2018-05-02 6:37 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 18/25] mm: provide speculative fault infrastructure Laurent Dufour
2018-05-15 13:09 ` vinayak menon
2018-05-15 14:07 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 19/25] mm: adding speculative page fault failure trace events Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 20/25] perf: add a speculative page fault sw event Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 21/25] perf tools: add support for the SPF perf event Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 22/25] mm: speculative page fault handler return VMA Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 23/25] mm: add speculative page fault vmstats Laurent Dufour
2018-05-16 2:50 ` Ganesh Mahendran
2018-05-16 6:42 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 24/25] x86/mm: add speculative pagefault handling Laurent Dufour
2018-04-30 18:43 ` Punit Agrawal
2018-05-03 14:59 ` Laurent Dufour
2018-04-17 14:33 ` [PATCH v10 25/25] powerpc/mm: add speculative page fault Laurent Dufour
2018-05-02 14:17 ` [PATCH v10 00/25] Speculative page faults Punit Agrawal
2018-05-02 14:45 ` Laurent Dufour [this message]
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