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From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, guro@fb.com, clm@fb.com
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 5-10% increase in IO latencies with nohz balance patch
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:07:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tuf07hdk.mognet@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99452126-661e-9a0c-6b51-d345ed0f76ee@leemhuis.info>


Hi,

On 22/12/21 13:42, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> What's the status here? Just wondering, because there hasn't been any
> activity in this thread since 11 days and the festive season is upon us.
>
> Was the discussion moved elsewhere? Or is this still a mystery? And if
> it is: how bad is it, does it need to be fixed before Linus releases 5.16?
>

I got to the end of bisect #3 yesterday, the incriminated commit doesn't
seem to make much sense but I've just re-tested it and there is a clear
regression between that commit and its parent (unlike bisect #1 and #2):

2127d22509aec3a83dffb2a3c736df7ba747a7ce mm, slub: fix two bugs in slab_debug_trace_open()
write_clat_ns_p99     195395.92     199638.20      4797.01    2.17%
write_iops             17305.79      17188.24       250.66   -0.68%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     199996.70      5122.88    2.28%
write_iops             17300.61      17241.86       251.56   -0.34%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     200724.48      5122.88    2.65%
write_iops             17300.61      17246.63       251.56   -0.31%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     200445.41      5122.88    2.51%
write_iops             17300.61      17215.47       251.56   -0.49%

6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind() 
write_clat_ns_p99     195395.92     197942.30      4797.01    1.30%
write_iops             17305.79      17246.56       250.66   -0.34%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     196183.92      5122.88    0.33%
write_iops             17300.61      17310.33       251.56    0.06%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     196990.71      5122.88    0.74%
write_iops             17300.61      17346.32       251.56    0.26%

write_clat_ns_p99     195543.84     196362.24      5122.88    0.42%
write_iops             17300.61      17315.71       251.56    0.09%

It's pure debug stuff and AFAICT is a correct fix...
@Josef, could you test that on your side?

> Ciao, Thorsten
>

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-22 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-29 17:03 [REGRESSION] 5-10% increase in IO latencies with nohz balance patch Josef Bacik
2021-11-29 18:03 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-11-29 18:15   ` Josef Bacik
2021-11-29 18:31     ` Valentin Schneider
2021-11-29 19:49       ` Josef Bacik
2021-11-30  0:26         ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-03 12:03           ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-03 19:00             ` Josef Bacik
2021-12-06  9:48               ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-09 17:22                 ` Valentin Schneider
2021-12-09 19:16                   ` Josef Bacik
2021-12-22 12:42                     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2021-12-22 16:07                       ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2022-01-03 16:16                         ` Josef Bacik
2022-01-13 16:41                           ` Valentin Schneider
2022-01-13 16:57                             ` Roman Gushchin
2022-02-18 11:00                               ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-02-18 15:34                                 ` Josef Bacik
2021-11-30  7:16 ` Thorsten Leemhuis

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