Re: CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vsunpinnede

From: Kamalesh Babulal
Date: Thu Sep 15 2011 - 13:55:53 EST


* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-09-14 00:05:02]:

> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> [2011-09-13 20:30:46]:
>
> > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:58 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> [2011-09-13 20:19:55]:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:24 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> > > > > We saw considerably high migration count on latest tip compared to
> > > > > previous kernels. Kamalesh, can you please post the migration count
> > > > > data?
> > > >
> > > > Hrmm, yes this looks horrid.. even without cgroup crap, something's funny.
> > >
> > > Yes ..we could visualize that very much in top o/p .. A task's cpu would keep
> > > changing *every* screen refresh (refreshed every 0.5 sec that too!).
> > >
> > > We didn't see that with older kernels ..Kamalesh is planning to do a
> > > git bisect and see which commit lead to this "mad" hopping ..
> >
> > Awesome, thanks! Btw, what is 'older'? 3.0?
>
> We went back all the way upto 2.6.32! I think 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 were
> pretty stable ..I don't have the migration count data with me readily. I
> will let Kamalesh post that info soon.

Test Setup :
-----------
Machine is 2 socket Quad Core Intel (x5570) box. The lb.sh
script was run in a loop to execute 5 times after the box
was bought up with the kernel.

lb.sh script spawns 2x number of CPU hogs, where x is
number of CPUs on the system. The script collects the
se.nr_migration before/after 60 seconds sleep and subtracts
the after_se.nr_migration - before_se.nr_migrations for
all the spawned hogs.
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Kernel | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 5 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.33 | 9604 | 101 | 66 | 2543 | 3488 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.34 | 28469 | 1514 | 1602 | 185 | 139 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.35 | 1052 | 12 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.36 | 1253 | 53 | 78 | 76 | 50 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.37 | 262 | 36 | 48 | 61 | 43 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.38 | 1551 | 48 | 62 | 47 | 50 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
2.6.39 | 3784 | 457 | 722 | 3209 | 1037 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
3.0 | 933 | 608 | 658 | 1424 | 1415 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
3.1.0-rc4-tip | | | | | |
(e467f18f945) | 1672 | 1643 | 1316 | 1577 | 61 |
----------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

lb.sh
------
#!/bin/bash

rm -rf test*
rm -rf t*

ITERATIONS=60 # No of Iterations to capture the details
NUM_CPUS=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep -i proces|wc -l)

NUM_HOGS=$((NUM_CPUS * 2)) # No of hogs threads to invoke

echo "System has $NUM_CPUS cpus..... Spawing $NUM_HOGS cpu hogs ... for $ITERATIONS seconds.."
if [ ! -e while1.c ]
then
cat >> while1.c << EOF
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
while(1);
return (0);
}
EOF
fi

for i in $(seq 1 $NUM_HOGS)
do
gcc -o while$i while1.c
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Looks like gcc is not present ... aborting"
exit
fi
done

for i in $(seq 1 $NUM_HOGS)
do
./while$i &
pids[$i]=$!
pids_old[$i]=`cat /proc/$!/sched |grep -i nr_migr|grep -iv cold|cut -d ":" -f2|sed 's/ //g'`
done

sleep $ITERATIONS

j=1
old_nr_migrations=0
new_nr_migrations=0
echo -e " \t New \t Old"
for i in $(seq 1 $NUM_HOGS)
do
a=`echo ${pids[i]}`
new=`cat /proc/$a/sched |grep -i nr_migr|grep -iv cold|cut -d ":" -f2|sed 's/ //g'`
old=`echo ${pids_old[i]}`
old_nr_migrations=$((old_nr_migrations + old))
c=$(($new - $old))
new_nr_migrations=$((new_nr_migrations + c))
echo -e "while$i\t[$new]\t[$old]\t"
done
echo "*******************************************"
echo -e " $new_nr_migrations\t$old_nr_migrations"
echo "*******************************************"
pkill -9 while

exit

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