Re: [percpu] ace7e70901: aim9.sync_disk_rw.ops_per_sec -2.3% regression

[Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>]

Hi Dennis,

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 02:52:39AM +0000, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:26:14AM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> > Hi Dennis,
> > 
> > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 07:08:03PM +0000, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 10:52:22AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 11:06:06AM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> > > > > hi Roman,
> > > > >  
> > > > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 12:54:59AM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > > > > Ping
> > > > > 
> > > > > sorry for late.
> > > > > 
> > > > > the new patch makes the performance a little better but still has
> > > > > 1.9% regression comparing to
> > > > > f183324133 ("percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation")
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Oliver!
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you for testing it!
> > > > 
> > > > Btw, can you, please, confirm that the regression is coming specifically
> > > > from ace7e70901 ("percpu: use reclaim threshold instead of running for every page")?
> > > > I do see *some* regression in my setup, but the data is very noisy, so I'm not sure
> > > > I can confirm it.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Thanks Oliver and Roman. If this is the case, I'll drop the final patch
> > > and just merge up to f183324133 ("percpu: implement partial chunk
> > > depopulation") into for-next as this is v5.14 anyway.
> > > 
> > > Oliver, is there a way to trigger the kernel test robot for a specific
> > > test?
> > 
> > sorry for late.
> 
> No worries. Thanks for all you work!
> 
> > not sure what kind of specific test you want robot to do?
> > if you mean for-next branch, if the branch is monitored by kernel test robot,
> > after merge, it will be tested by robot automatically and the bisect will be
> > triggered if there is still regression.
> 
> In this case, we believe there is a regression in
> "aim9.sync_disk_rw.ops_per_sec". I know my branches are monitored (hence
> we suspect this regression), but it would be nice to be able to kick off
> a test with a patch or set of patches on top to validate that the
> regression is fixed on your hardware configuration. Unfortunately I
> don't have a 100+ core machine lying around :P.

yes, we can do that. you could either send us the patch or patch set,
or give us the branch information and commits you want us to check.

> 
> Sorry for the additional questions, but is there a time frame that the
> kernel robot is expected scrape over my tree / what test suites get run
> against any particular branch?

kernel robot uses a merge strategy which allows it to monitor thousands of
branches. but also due to this merge, we cannot guarantee a branch merged
into a target kernel in a given time, tested by our dozens of test suite,
and bisected to a particular commit on a perticular branch. sorry that we
currently cannot supply a link for you to search out the information you said.

however, just like above, please kindly let us know if you want some further
tests based on our report.

> 
> > I found the ace7e70901 has already been dropped from original branch (dennis-percpu/for-5.14),
> 
> Yeah I have temporarily dropped it to get the others into for-next for
> now. I'll spend some time later this week digging deeper into this.
> 
> > and we have data for this branch as below. from data, the f183324133 (current
> > branch tip) doesn't introduce regression comparing 5.12-rc7 in our tests.
> > 
> > f183324133ea5 percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation                 103673.09 102188.39 104325.06 104038.4 102908.57 104057.06
> > 1c29a3ceaf5f0 percpu: use pcpu_free_slot instead of pcpu_nr_slots - 1      104777.31 102225.93 101657.6
> > 8ea2e1e35d1eb percpu: factor out pcpu_check_block_hint()                   102290.78 101853.87 102541.65
> > d434405aaab7d Linux 5.12-rc7                                               102103.06 102248.12 101906.81 103033.13 102043.33
> > 
> 
> Thanks,
> Dennis