From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752629AbcLHJSM (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 04:18:12 -0500 Received: from outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.15]:60395 "EHLO outbound-smtp10.blacknight.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319AbcLHJSJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Dec 2016 04:18:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 09:18:06 +0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Cc: Eric Dumazet , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Michal Hocko , Vlastimil Babka , Johannes Weiner , Joonsoo Kim , Linux-MM , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: High-order per-cpu page allocator v7 Message-ID: <20161208091806.gzcxlerxprcjvt3l@techsingularity.net> References: <20161207101228.8128-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <1481137249.4930.59.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com> <20161207194801.krhonj7yggbedpba@techsingularity.net> <1481141424.4930.71.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com> <20161207211958.s3ymjva54wgakpkm@techsingularity.net> <20161207232531.fxqdgrweilej5gs6@techsingularity.net> <20161208092231.55c7eacf@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161208092231.55c7eacf@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.2 (2016-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 09:22:31AM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 23:25:31 +0000 > Mel Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 09:19:58PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > At small packet sizes on localhost, I see relatively low page allocator > > > activity except during the socket setup and other unrelated activity > > > (khugepaged, irqbalance, some btrfs stuff) which is curious as it's > > > less clear why the performance was improved in that case. I considered > > > the possibility that it was cache hotness of pages but that's not a > > > good fit. If it was true then the first test would be slow and the rest > > > relatively fast and I'm not seeing that. The other side-effect is that > > > all the high-order pages that are allocated at the start are physically > > > close together but that shouldn't have that big an impact. So for now, > > > the gain is unexplained even though it happens consistently. > > > > > > > Further investigation led me to conclude that the netperf automation on > > my side had some methodology errors that could account for an artifically > > low score in some cases. The netperf automation is years old and would > > have been developed against a much older and smaller machine which may be > > why I missed it until I went back looking at exactly what the automation > > was doing. Minimally in a server/client test on remote maching there was > > potentially higher packet loss than is acceptable. This would account why > > some machines "benefitted" while others did not -- there would be boot to > > boot variations that some machines happened to be "lucky". I believe I've > > corrected the errors, discarded all the old data and scheduled a rest to > > see what falls out. > > I guess you are talking about setting the netperf socket queue low > (+256 bytes above msg size), that I pointed out in[1]. Primarily, yes. > From the same commit[2] I can see you explicitly set (local+remote): > > sysctl net.core.rmem_max=16777216 > sysctl net.core.wmem_max=16777216 > Yes, I set it for higher speed networks as a starting point to remind me to examine rmem_default or socket configurations if any significant packet loss is observed. > Eric do you have any advice on this setting? > > And later[4] you further increase this to 32MiB. Notice that the > netperf UDP_STREAM test will still use the default value from: > net.core.rmem_default = 212992. > That's expected. In the initial sniff-test, I saw negligible packet loss. I'm waiting to see what the full set of network tests look like before doing any further adjustments. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs