From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap()
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 18:43:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506224335.gv3as7vuik3rtt5w@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UcZhnCtM4YP3L9kbtghNp9vOzSpVm5WC1164OVmRHLaMA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:36:54PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:21 PM Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 07:55:43AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > One question about this data. What is the power management
> > > configuration on the systems when you are running these tests? I'm
> > > just curious if CPU frequency scaling, C states, and turbo are
> > > enabled?
> >
> > Yes, intel_pstate is loaded in active mode without hwp and with turbo enabled
> > (those power management docs are great by the way!) and intel_idle is in use
> > too.
> >
> > > I ask because that is what I have seen usually make the
> > > difference in these kind of workloads as the throughput starts
> > > dropping off as you start seeing the core frequency lower and more
> > > cores become active.
> >
> > If I follow, you're saying there's a chance performance would improve with the
> > above disabled, but how often would a system be configured that way? Even if
> > it were faster, the machine is configured how it's configured, or am I missing
> > your point?
>
> I think you might be missing my point. What I was getting at is that I
> know for performance testing sometimes C states and P states get
> disabled in order to get consistent results between runs, it sounds
> like you have them enabled though. I was just wondering if you had
> disabled them or not. If they were disabled then you wouldn't get the
> benefits of turbo and as such adding more cores wouldn't come at a
> penalty, while with it enabled the first few cores should start to
> slow down as they fell out of turbo mode. So it may be part of the
> reason why you are only hitting about 10x at full core count.
All right, that makes way more sense.
> As it stands I think your code may speed up a bit if you split the
> work up based on section instead of max order. That would get rid of
> any cache bouncing you may be doing on the pageblock flags and reduce
> the overhead for splitting the work up into individual pieces since
> each piece will be bigger.
See my other mail.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 20:11 [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/7] padata: remove exit routine Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/7] padata: initialize earlier Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/7] padata: allocate work structures for parallel jobs from a pool Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] padata: add basic support for multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: move zone iterator outside of deferred_init_maxorder() Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-01 2:45 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:10 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05 0:54 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 15:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:39 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 15:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 20:20 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 21:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 22:15 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap() Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:33 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-04 23:38 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-05 0:40 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05 1:48 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 2:09 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 14:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:21 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-06 22:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:43 ` Daniel Jordan [this message]
2020-05-06 23:01 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 1:26 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 7/7] padata: document multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Andrew Morton
2020-04-30 21:40 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-01 2:40 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-01 0:50 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01 1:09 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01 2:48 ` Daniel Jordan
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