Re: [RFC v3 0/2] CPU-Idle latency selftest framework

[Pratik Sampat <psampat@linux.ibm.com>]

Hello Doug,

On 09/04/21 10:53 am, Doug Smythies wrote:
> Hi Pratik,
>
> I tried V3 on a Intel i5-10600K processor with 6 cores and 12 CPUs.
> The core to cpu mappings are:
> core 0 has cpus 0 and 6
> core 1 has cpus 1 and 7
> core 2 has cpus 2 and 8
> core 3 has cpus 3 and 9
> core 4 has cpus 4 and 10
> core 5 has cpus 5 and 11
>
> By default, it will test CPUs 0,2,4,6,10 on cores 0,2,4,0,2,4.
> wouldn't it make more sense to test each core once?

Ideally it would be better to run on all the CPUs, however on larger systems
that I'm testing on with hundreds of cores and a high a thread count, the
execution time increases while not particularly bringing any additional
information to the table.

That is why it made sense only run on one of the threads of each core to make
the experiment faster while preserving accuracy.

To handle various thread topologies it maybe worthwhile if we parse
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list for each core and
use this information to run only once per physical core, rather than
assuming the topology.

What are your thoughts on a mechanism like this?

> With the source CPU always 0, I think the results from the results
> from the destination CPUs 0 and 6, on core 0 bias the results, at
> least in the deeper idle states. They don't make much difference in
> the shallow states. Myself, I wouldn't include them in the results.

I agree, CPU0->CPU0 same core interaction is causing a bias. I could omit that
observation while computing the average.

In the verbose mode I'll omit all the threads of CPU0 and in the default
(quick) mode just CPU0's latency can be omitted while computing average.

Thank you,
Pratik

> Example, where I used the -v option for all CPUs:
>
> --IPI Latency Test---
> --Baseline IPI Latency measurement: CPU Busy--
> SRC_CPU   DEST_CPU IPI_Latency(ns)
> 0            0          101
> 0            1          790
> 0            2          609
> 0            3          595
> 0            4          737
> 0            5          759
> 0            6          780
> 0            7          741
> 0            8          574
> 0            9          681
> 0           10          527
> 0           11          552
> Baseline Avg IPI latency(ns): 620  <<<< suggest 656 here
> ---Enabling state: 0---
> SRC_CPU   DEST_CPU IPI_Latency(ns)
> 0            0           76
> 0            1          471
> 0            2          420
> 0            3          462
> 0            4          454
> 0            5          468
> 0            6          453
> 0            7          473
> 0            8          380
> 0            9          483
> 0           10          492
> 0           11          454
> Expected IPI latency(ns): 0
> Observed Avg IPI latency(ns) - State 0: 423 <<<<< suggest 456 here
> ---Enabling state: 1---
> SRC_CPU   DEST_CPU IPI_Latency(ns)
> 0            0          112
> 0            1          866
> 0            2          663
> 0            3          851
> 0            4         1090
> 0            5         1314
> 0            6         1941
> 0            7         1458
> 0            8          687
> 0            9          802
> 0           10         1041
> 0           11         1284
> Expected IPI latency(ns): 1000
> Observed Avg IPI latency(ns) - State 1: 1009 <<<< suggest 1006 here
> ---Enabling state: 2---
> SRC_CPU   DEST_CPU IPI_Latency(ns)
> 0            0           75
> 0            1        16362
> 0            2        16785
> 0            3        19650
> 0            4        17356
> 0            5        17606
> 0            6         2217
> 0            7        17958
> 0            8        17332
> 0            9        16615
> 0           10        17382
> 0           11        17423
> Expected IPI latency(ns): 120000
> Observed Avg IPI latency(ns) - State 2: 14730 <<<< suggest 17447 here
> ---Enabling state: 3---
> SRC_CPU   DEST_CPU IPI_Latency(ns)
> 0            0          103
> 0            1        17416
> 0            2        17961
> 0            3        16651
> 0            4        17867
> 0            5        17726
> 0            6         2178
> 0            7        16620
> 0            8        20951
> 0            9        16567
> 0           10        17131
> 0           11        17563
> Expected IPI latency(ns): 1034000
> Observed Avg IPI latency(ns) - State 3: 14894 <<<< suggest 17645 here
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> ... Doug