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From: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 07:43:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] x86: Rewrite switch_to()
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> * Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Something like this:
>> >
>> >   taskset 1 perf stat -a -e '{instructions,cycles}' --repeat 10 perf bench sched pipe
>> >
>> > ... will give a very good idea about the general impact of these changes on
>> > context switch overhead.
>>
>> Before:
>>  Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (10 runs):
>>
>>     12,010,932,128      instructions              #    1.03  insn per
>> cycle                                              ( +-  0.31% )
>>     11,691,797,513      cycles
>>                ( +-  0.76% )
>>
>>        3.487329979 seconds time elapsed
>>           ( +-  0.78% )
>>
>> After:
>>  Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (10 runs):
>>
>>     12,097,706,506      instructions              #    1.04  insn per
>> cycle                                              ( +-  0.14% )
>>     11,612,167,742      cycles
>>                ( +-  0.81% )
>>
>>        3.451278789 seconds time elapsed
>>           ( +-  0.82% )
>>
>> The numbers with or without this patch series are roughly the same.
>> There is noticeable variation in the numbers each time I run it, so
>> I'm not sure how good of a benchmark this is.
>
> Weird, I get an order of magnitude lower noise:
>
>  triton:~/tip> taskset 1 perf stat -a -e '{instructions,cycles}' --repeat 10 perf bench sched pipe >/dev/null
>
>  Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (10 runs):
>
>     11,503,026,062      instructions              #    1.23  insn per cycle                                              ( +-  2.64% )
>      9,377,410,613      cycles                                                        ( +-  2.05% )
>
>        1.669425407 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.12% )
>
> But note that I also had '--sync' for perf stat and did a >/dev/null at the end to
> make sure no terminal output and subsequent Xorg activities interfere. Also, full
> screen terminal.
>
> Maybe try 'taskset 4' as well to put the workload on another CPU, if the first CPU
> is busier than the others?
>
> (Any Hyperthreading on your test system?)

It is an AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T, no hyperthreading.

--
Brian Gerst