Re: [RFC PATCH v6 3/4] scheduler: scan idle cpu in cluster for tasks within one LLC

[Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>]

On 07/05/2021 15:07, Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) wrote:
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>>> On the other hand, according to "sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic"
>>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/
>> ?id=62470419
>>>
>>> Proper factor in wake_wide is mainly beneficial of 1:n tasks like
>> postgresql/pgbench.
>>> So using the smaller cluster size as factor might help make wake_affine false
>> so
>>> improve pgbench.
>>>
>>> From the commit log, while clients =  2*cpus, the commit made the biggest
>>> improvement. In my case, It should be clients=48 for a machine whose LLC
>>> size is 24.
>>>
>>> In Linux, I created a 240MB database and ran "pgbench -c 48 -S -T 20 pgbench"
>>> under two different scenarios:
>>> 1. page cache always hit, so no real I/O for database read
>>> 2. echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>>>
>>> For case 1, using cluster_size and using llc_size will result in similar
>>> tps= ~108000, all of 24 cpus have 100% cpu utilization.
>>>
>>> For case 2, using llc_size still shows better performance.
>>>
>>> tps for each test round(cluster size as factor in wake_wide):
>>> 1398.450887 1275.020401 1632.542437 1412.241627 1611.095692 1381.354294
>> 1539.877146
>>> avg tps = 1464
>>>
>>> tps for each test round(llc size as factor in wake_wide):
>>> 1718.402983 1443.169823 1502.353823 1607.415861 1597.396924 1745.651814
>> 1876.802168
>>> avg tps = 1641  (+12%)
>>>
>>> so it seems using cluster_size as factor in "slave >= factor && master >=
>> slave *
>>> factor" isn't a good choice for my machine at least.
>>
>> So SD size = 4 (instead of 24) seems to be too small for `-c 48`.
>>
>> Just curious, have you seen the benefit of using wake wide on SD size =
>> 24 (LLC) compared to not using it at all?
> 
> At least in my benchmark made today, I have not seen any benefit to use
> llc_size. Always returning 0 in wake_wide() seems to be much better.
> 
> postgres@ubuntu:$pgbench -i pgbench
> postgres@pgbench:$ pgbench -T 120 -c 48 pgbench
> 
> using llc_size, it got to 123tps
> always returning 0 in wake_wide(), it got to 158tps
> 
> actually, I really couldn't reproduce the performance improvement
> the commit "sched: Implement smarter wake-affine logic" mentioned.
> on the other hand, the commit log didn't present the pgbench command
> parameter used. I guess the benchmark result will highly depend on
> the command parameter and disk I/O speed.

I see. And it was a way smaller machine (12 CPUs) back then.

You could run pgbench via mmtests https://github.com/gormanm/mmtests.

I.e the `timed-ro-medium` test.

mmtests# ./run-mmtests.sh --config
./configs/config-db-pgbench-timed-ro-medium test_tag

/shellpacks/shellpack-bench-pgbench contains all the individual test
steps. Something you could use as a template for your pgbench standalone
tests as well.

I ran this test on an Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 with 40 CPUs and 64GB of
memory on v5.12 vanilla and w/o wakewide.
The test uses `scale_factor = 2570` on this machine. I guess this
relates to ~41GB? At least this was the size of the:

#mmtests/work/testdisk/data/pgdata directory when the test started.


mmtests/work/log# ../../compare-kernels.sh --baseline base --compare
wo_wakewide | grep ^Hmean


      #clients  v5.12 vanilla          v5.12 w/o wakewide

Hmean     1     10903.88 (   0.00%)    10792.59 *  -1.02%*
Hmean     6     28480.60 (   0.00%)    27954.97 *  -1.85%*
Hmean     12    49197.55 (   0.00%)    47758.16 *  -2.93%*
Hmean     22    72902.37 (   0.00%)    71314.01 *  -2.18%*
Hmean     30    75468.16 (   0.00%)    75929.17 *   0.61%*
Hmean     48    60155.58 (   0.00%)    60471.91 *   0.53%*
Hmean     80    62202.38 (   0.00%)    60814.76 *  -2.23%*


So there are some improvements w/ wakewide but nothing of the scale
showed in the original wakewide patch.

I'm not an expert on how to set up these pgbench tests though. So maybe
other pgbench related mmtests configs or some more fine-grained tuning
can produce bigger diffs?