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[174.109.172.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v21sm512763qta.0.2021.12.09.11.16.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 09 Dec 2021 11:16:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:16:20 -0500 From: Josef Bacik To: Valentin Schneider 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 Message-ID: References: <87ee6yc00j.mognet@arm.com> <87bl22byq2.mognet@arm.com> <878rx6bia5.mognet@arm.com> <87wnklaoa8.mognet@arm.com> <87lf0y9i8x.mognet@arm.com> <87v8zx8zia.mognet@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87v8zx8zia.mognet@arm.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:22:05PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote: > On 06/12/21 09:48, Valentin Schneider wrote: > > On 03/12/21 14:00, Josef Bacik wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 12:03:27PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote: > >>> Could you give the 4 top patches, i.e. those above > >>> 8c92606ab810 ("sched/cpuacct: Make user/system times in cpuacct.stat more precise") > >>> a try? > >>> > >>> https://git.gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-vs.git -b mainline/sched/nohz-next-update-regression > >>> > >>> I gave that a quick test on the platform that caused me to write the patch > >>> you bisected and looks like it didn't break the original fix. If the above > >>> counter-measures aren't sufficient, I'll have to go poke at your > >>> reproducers... > >>> > >> > >> It's better but still around 6% regression. If I compare these patches to the > >> average of the last few days worth of runs you're 5% better than before, so > >> progress but not completely erased. > >> > > > > Hmph, time for me to reproduce this locally then. Thanks! > > I carved out a partition out of an Ampere eMAG's HDD to play with BTRFS > via fsperf; this is what I get for the bisected commit (baseline is > bisected patchset's immediate parent, aka v5.15-rc4) via a handful of > ./fsperf -p before-regression -c btrfs -n 100 -t emptyfiles500k > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 198790.46 4797.01 1.74% > write_iops 17305.79 17471.57 250.66 0.96% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 197694.06 4797.01 1.18% > write_iops 17305.79 17533.62 250.66 1.32% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 197903.67 4797.01 1.28% > write_iops 17305.79 17519.71 250.66 1.24% > > If I compare against tip/sched/core however: > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 202936.32 4797.01 3.86% > write_iops 17305.79 17065.46 250.66 -1.39% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 204349.44 4797.01 4.58% > write_iops 17305.79 17097.79 250.66 -1.20% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 204169.05 4797.01 4.49% > write_iops 17305.79 17112.29 250.66 -1.12% > > tip/sched/core + my patches: > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 205721.60 4797.01 5.28% > write_iops 17305.79 16947.59 250.66 -2.07% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 203358.04 4797.01 4.07% > write_iops 17305.79 16953.24 250.66 -2.04% > > write_clat_ns_p99 195395.92 201830.40 4797.01 3.29% > write_iops 17305.79 17041.18 250.66 -1.53% > > So tip/sched/core seems to have a much worse regression, and my patches > are making things worse on that system... > > I've started a bisection to see where the above leads me, unfortunately > this machine needs more babysitting than I thought so it's gonna take a > while. > > @Josef any chance you could see if the above also applies to you? tip lives > at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git, though from > where my bisection is taking me it looks like you should see that against > Linus' tree as well. > This has made us all curious, so we're all fucking around with schbench to see if we can make it show up without needing to use fsperf. Maybe that'll help with the bisect, because I had to bisect twice to land on your patches, and I only emailed when I could see the change right before and right after your patch. It would not surprise me at all if there's something else here that's causing us pain. > Thanks, > Valentin