From: "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Julien Desfossez" <jdesfossez@digitalocean.com>,
"Vineeth Remanan Pillai" <vpillai@digitalocean.com>,
"Nishanth Aravamudan" <naravamudan@digitalocean.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Tim Chen" <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Paul Turner" <pjt@google.com>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Linux List Kernel Mailing" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Subhra Mazumdar" <subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com>,
"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Greg Kerr" <kerrnel@google.com>, "Phil Auld" <pauld@redhat.com>,
"Aaron Lu" <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
"Valentin Schneider" <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
"Pawan Gupta" <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:17:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db7c3e51-d013-b3d9-7bce-c247aa2e7144@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190428121721.GA121434@gmail.com>
On 2019/4/28 20:17, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 5:33 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> So because I'm a big fan of presenting data in a readable fashion, here
>>> are your results, tabulated:
>>
>> I thought I tried my best to make it readable, but this one looks much better,
>> thanks, ;-)
>>>
>>> #
>>> # Sysbench throughput comparison of 3 different kernels at different
>>> # load levels, higher numbers are better:
>>> #
>>>
>>> .--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------.
>>> | NA/AVX vanilla-SMT [stddev%] |coresched-SMT [stddev%] +/- | no-SMT [stddev%] +/- |
>>> |--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
>>> | 1/1 508.5 [ 0.2% ] | 504.7 [ 1.1% ] 0.8% | 509.0 [ 0.2% ] 0.1% |
>>> | 2/2 1000.2 [ 1.4% ] | 1004.1 [ 1.6% ] 0.4% | 997.6 [ 1.2% ] 0.3% |
>>> | 4/4 1912.1 [ 1.0% ] | 1904.2 [ 1.1% ] 0.4% | 1914.9 [ 1.3% ] 0.1% |
>>> | 8/8 3753.5 [ 0.3% ] | 3748.2 [ 0.3% ] 0.1% | 3751.3 [ 0.4% ] 0.1% |
>>> | 16/16 7139.3 [ 2.4% ] | 7137.9 [ 1.8% ] 0.0% | 7049.2 [ 2.4% ] 1.3% |
>>> | 32/32 10899.0 [ 4.2% ] | 10780.3 [ 4.4% ] -1.1% | 10339.2 [ 9.6% ] -5.1% |
>>> | 64/64 15086.1 [ 11.5% ] | 14262.0 [ 8.2% ] -5.5% | 11168.7 [ 22.2% ] -26.0% |
>>> | 128/128 15371.9 [ 22.0% ] | 14675.8 [ 14.4% ] -4.5% | 10963.9 [ 18.5% ] -28.7% |
>>> | 256/256 15990.8 [ 22.0% ] | 12227.9 [ 10.3% ] -23.5% | 10469.9 [ 19.6% ] -34.5% |
>>> '--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------'
>>>
>>> One major thing that sticks out is that if we compare the stddev numbers
>>> to the +/- comparisons then it's pretty clear that the benchmarks are
>>> very noisy: in all but the last row stddev is actually higher than the
>>> measured effect.
>>>
>>> So what does 'stddev' mean here, exactly? The stddev of multipe runs,
>>> i.e. measured run-to-run variance? Or is it some internal metric of the
>>> benchmark?
>>>
>>
>> The benchmark periodically reports intermediate statistics in one second,
>> the raw log looks like below:
>> [ 11s ] thds: 256 eps: 14346.72 lat (ms,95%): 44.17
>> [ 12s ] thds: 256 eps: 14328.45 lat (ms,95%): 44.17
>> [ 13s ] thds: 256 eps: 13773.06 lat (ms,95%): 43.39
>> [ 14s ] thds: 256 eps: 13752.31 lat (ms,95%): 43.39
>> [ 15s ] thds: 256 eps: 15362.79 lat (ms,95%): 43.39
>> [ 16s ] thds: 256 eps: 26580.65 lat (ms,95%): 35.59
>> [ 17s ] thds: 256 eps: 15011.78 lat (ms,95%): 36.89
>> [ 18s ] thds: 256 eps: 15025.78 lat (ms,95%): 39.65
>> [ 19s ] thds: 256 eps: 15350.87 lat (ms,95%): 39.65
>> [ 20s ] thds: 256 eps: 15491.70 lat (ms,95%): 36.89
>>
>> I have a python script to parse eps(events per second) and lat(latency)
>> out, and compute the average and stddev. (And I can draw a curve locally).
>>
>> It's noisy indeed when tasks number is greater than the CPU number.
>> It's probably caused by high frequent load balance and context switch.
>
> Ok, so it's basically an internal workload noise metric, it doesn't
> represent the run-to-run noise.
>
> So it's the real stddev of the workload - but we don't know whether the
> measured performance figure is exactly in the middle of the runtime
> probability distribution.
>
>> Do you have any suggestions? Or any other information I can provide?
>
> Yeah, so we don't just want to know the "standard deviation" of the
> measured throughput values, but also the "standard error of the mean".
>
> I suspect it's pretty low, below 1% for all rows?
Hope my this mail box works for this...
.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------.
|NA/AVX vanilla-SMT [std% / sem%] | coresched-SMT [std% / sem%] +/- | no-SMT [std% / sem%] +/- |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1/1 508.5 [ 0.2%/ 0.0%] | 504.7 [ 1.1%/ 0.1%] -0.8%| 509.0 [ 0.2%/ 0.0%] 0.1% |
| 2/2 1000.2 [ 1.4%/ 0.1%] | 1004.1 [ 1.6%/ 0.2%] 0.4%| 997.6 [ 1.2%/ 0.1%] -0.3% |
| 4/4 1912.1 [ 1.0%/ 0.1%] | 1904.2 [ 1.1%/ 0.1%] -0.4%| 1914.9 [ 1.3%/ 0.1%] 0.1% |
| 8/8 3753.5 [ 0.3%/ 0.0%] | 3748.2 [ 0.3%/ 0.0%] -0.1%| 3751.3 [ 0.4%/ 0.0%] -0.1% |
| 16/16 7139.3 [ 2.4%/ 0.2%] | 7137.9 [ 1.8%/ 0.2%] -0.0%| 7049.2 [ 2.4%/ 0.2%] -1.3% |
| 32/32 10899.0 [ 4.2%/ 0.4%] | 10780.3 [ 4.4%/ 0.4%] -1.1%| 10339.2 [ 9.6%/ 0.9%] -5.1% |
| 64/64 15086.1 [11.5%/ 1.2%] | 14262.0 [ 8.2%/ 0.8%] -5.5%| 11168.7 [22.2%/ 1.7%] -26.0% |
|128/128 15371.9 [22.0%/ 2.2%] | 14675.8 [14.4%/ 1.4%] -4.5%| 10963.9 [18.5%/ 1.4%] -28.7% |
|256/256 15990.8 [22.0%/ 2.2%] | 12227.9 [10.3%/ 1.0%] -23.5%| 10469.9 [19.6%/ 1.7%] -34.5% |
'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'
Thanks,
-Aubrey
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2019-04-23 16:18 [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2 Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/17] stop_machine: Fix stop_cpus_in_progress ordering Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/17] sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/17] sched: Wrap rq::lock access Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/17] sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/17] sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/17] sched/fair: Export newidle_balance() Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/17] sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq->lock Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/17] sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/17] sched: Introduce sched_class::pick_task() Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-26 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-26 16:10 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-29 5:38 ` Aaron Lu
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/17] sched: Core-wide rq->lock Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/17] sched: Basic tracking of matching tasks Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-24 0:08 ` Tim Chen
2019-04-24 20:43 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-24 22:12 ` Tim Chen
2019-04-25 14:35 ` Phil Auld
2019-05-22 19:52 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-24 0:17 ` Tim Chen
2019-04-24 20:43 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-29 3:36 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-10 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-29 6:15 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-01 23:27 ` Tim Chen
2019-05-03 0:06 ` Tim Chen
2019-05-08 15:49 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-08 18:19 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-05-08 18:37 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-05-09 0:01 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-09 0:25 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-05-09 1:38 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-09 2:14 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-05-09 15:10 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-09 17:50 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-05-10 0:09 ` Tim Chen
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/17] sched: A quick and dirty cgroup tagging interface Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-25 14:26 ` Phil Auld
2019-04-26 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-26 14:19 ` Phil Auld
2019-05-10 15:12 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/17] sched: Add core wide task selection and scheduling Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-29 7:13 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-18 15:37 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-20 13:04 ` Phil Auld
2019-05-20 14:04 ` Vineeth Pillai
2019-05-21 8:19 ` Aubrey Li
2019-05-21 13:24 ` Vineeth Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/17] sched/fair: Add a few assertions Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/17] sched: Trivial forced-newidle balancer Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 23:46 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-24 14:03 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-24 14:05 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/17] sched: Wake up sibling if it has something to run Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-26 15:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-29 12:36 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-04-23 16:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/17] sched: Debug bits Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-17 17:18 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-23 18:02 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2 Phil Auld
2019-04-23 18:45 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-29 3:53 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-06 19:39 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-05-08 2:30 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-08 17:49 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-05-09 2:11 ` Aaron Lu
2019-05-15 21:36 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-23 23:25 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-24 11:19 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-05-15 21:39 ` Vineeth Remanan Pillai
2019-04-24 13:13 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-24 14:00 ` Julien Desfossez
2019-04-25 3:15 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-25 9:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-25 18:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25 18:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-25 19:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-25 21:31 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-26 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26 10:43 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-26 18:37 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-04-26 19:49 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-26 9:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26 10:19 ` Mel Gorman
2019-04-27 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-26 14:15 ` Phil Auld
2019-04-26 2:18 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-26 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 3:51 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-27 9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 14:04 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-27 14:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 15:54 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-28 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-28 10:29 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-28 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
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2019-04-29 6:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-29 13:25 ` Li, Aubrey
2019-04-29 15:39 ` Phil Auld
2019-04-30 1:24 ` Aubrey Li
2019-04-29 16:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-30 1:34 ` Aubrey Li
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