Re: Performance regression of specjbb2005/aim7 with 2.6.29-rc1

[Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:37 +0800, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:57 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> > Comparing with 2.6.28's results, specjbb2005 has about 7% regression with 2.6.29-rc1
> > on my a couple of x86_64 machines. aim7 has about 1.7% regression.
> > 
> > Ming did a quick bisect with aim7 and located below patch.
> > 
> > commit 0a582440ff546e2c6610d1acec325e91b4efd313
> > Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> > Date:   Fri Jan 2 12:16:42 2009 +0100
> > 
> >     sched: fix sched_slice()
> >     
> >     Impact: fix bad-interactivity buglet
> >     
> >     Fix sched_slice() to emit a sane result whether a task is currently
> >     enqueued or not.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> >     Tested-by: Jayson King <dev@jaysonking.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > 
> > 
> > After we revert the patch, aim7 regression disappeared. specjbb2005 regression becomes
> > less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley and disappears on 16-core tigerton. I don't know what
> > causes the last 1.5% regression.
> > 
> > As tbench has about 5% improvement and oltp(mysql+sysbench) has 5% improvement, we also tested
> > to make sure such improvement isn't related to above patch. volanoMark's improvement is also not
> > related to the patch. So it seems safe to revert it.
> 
> No, it's not safe to just revert.  You can replace it with something
> else, but as long as sched_slice() is called for unqueued tasks, it must
> emit sane slices, otherwise you can experience a latency-hit-from-hell.
> 
> See thread: problem with "sched: revert back to per-rq vruntime"?

Below patch fixes aim7 regression and specjbb2005 regression becomes
less than 1.5% on 8-core stokley.

Jayson,
Mike's patch fixed the latency problem you reported
would you please help to test this patch to see if it still works fine now?

diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 8e1352c..617e54c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -429,10 +429,10 @@ static u64 sched_slice(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
 	u64 slice = __sched_period(cfs_rq->nr_running + !se->on_rq);
 
 	for_each_sched_entity(se) {
-		struct load_weight *load = &cfs_rq->load;
+		struct load_weight *load = &cfs_rq_of(se)->load;
 
 		if (unlikely(!se->on_rq)) {
-			struct load_weight lw = cfs_rq->load;
+			struct load_weight lw = cfs_rq_of(se)->load;
 
 			update_load_add(&lw, se->load.weight);
 			load = &lw;


Thanks,
Lin Ming


> 
> 	-Mike
>