Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] sched/fair: Introduce SIS_CURRENT to wake up short task on current CPU

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 11:52:47PM +0800, Chen Yu wrote:

> > So,... I've been poking around with this a bit today and I'm not seeing
> > it. On my ancient IVB-EP (2*10*2) with the code as in
> > queue/sched/core I get:
> > 
> > netperf                   NO_SIS_CURRENT          %
> >                                      SIS_CURRENT
> > ----------------------- -------------------------------
> > TCP_SENDFILE-1  : Avg:    42001      40783.4   -2.89898
> > TCP_SENDFILE-10 : Avg:    37065.1    36604.4   -1.24295
> > TCP_SENDFILE-20 : Avg:    21004.4    21356.9   1.67822
> > TCP_SENDFILE-40 : Avg:    7079.93    7231.3    2.13802
> > TCP_SENDFILE-80 : Avg:    3582.98    3615.85   0.917393

> > TCP_STREAM-1    : Avg:    37134.5    35095.4   -5.49112
> > TCP_STREAM-10   : Avg:    31260.7    31588.1   1.04732
> > TCP_STREAM-20   : Avg:    17996.6    17937.4   -0.328951
> > TCP_STREAM-40   : Avg:    7710.4     7790.62   1.04041
> > TCP_STREAM-80   : Avg:    2601.51    2903.89   11.6232

> > TCP_RR-1        : Avg:    81167.8    83541.3   2.92419
> > TCP_RR-10       : Avg:    71123.2    69447.9   -2.35549
> > TCP_RR-20       : Avg:    50905.4    52157.2   2.45907
> > TCP_RR-40       : Avg:    46289.2    46350.7   0.13286
> > TCP_RR-80       : Avg:    22024.4    22229.2   0.929878

> > UDP_RR-1        : Avg:    95997.2    96553.3   0.579288
> > UDP_RR-10       : Avg:    83878.5    78998.6   -5.81782
> > UDP_RR-20       : Avg:    61838.8    62926     1.75812
> > UDP_RR-40       : Avg:    56456.1    57115.2   1.16746
> > UDP_RR-80       : Avg:    27635.2    27784.8   0.541339

> > UDP_STREAM-1    : Avg:    52808.2    51908.6   -1.70352
> > UDP_STREAM-10   : Avg:    43115      43561.2   1.03491
> > UDP_STREAM-20   : Avg:    18798.7    20066     6.74142
> > UDP_STREAM-40   : Avg:    13070.5    13110.2   0.303737
> > UDP_STREAM-80   : Avg:    6248.86    6413.09   2.62816


> > tbench

> > WA_WEIGHT, WA_BIAS, NO_SIS_CURRENT (aka, mainline)
> > 
> > Throughput  649.46 MB/sec   2 clients   2 procs  max_latency=0.092 ms
> > Throughput 1370.93 MB/sec   5 clients   5 procs  max_latency=0.140 ms
> > Throughput 1904.14 MB/sec  10 clients  10 procs  max_latency=0.470 ms
> > Throughput 2406.15 MB/sec  20 clients  20 procs  max_latency=0.276 ms
> > Throughput 2419.40 MB/sec  40 clients  40 procs  max_latency=0.414 ms
> > Throughput 2426.00 MB/sec  80 clients  80 procs  max_latency=1.366 ms
> > 
> > WA_WEIGHT, WA_BIAS, SIS_CURRENT (aka, with patches on)
> > 
> > Throughput  646.55 MB/sec   2 clients   2 procs  max_latency=0.104 ms
> > Throughput 1361.06 MB/sec   5 clients   5 procs  max_latency=0.100 ms
> > Throughput 1889.82 MB/sec  10 clients  10 procs  max_latency=0.154 ms
> > Throughput 2406.57 MB/sec  20 clients  20 procs  max_latency=3.667 ms
> > Throughput 2318.00 MB/sec  40 clients  40 procs  max_latency=0.390 ms
> > Throughput 2384.85 MB/sec  80 clients  80 procs  max_latency=1.371 ms
> > 
> > 
> > So what's going on here? I don't see anything exciting happening at the
> > 40 mark. At the same time, I can't seem to reproduce Mike's latency pile
> > up either :/
> > 
> Thank you very much for trying this patch. This patch was found to mainly
> benefit system with large number of CPUs in 1 LLC. Previously I tested
> it on Sapphire Rapids(2x56C/224T) and Ice Lake Server(2x32C/128T)[1], it
> seems to have benefit on them. The benefit seems to come from:
> 1. reducing the waker stacking among many CPUs within 1 LLC

I should be seeing that at 10 cores per LLC. And when we look at the
tbench results (never the most stable -- let me run a few more of those)
it looks like SIS_CURRENT is actually making that worse.

That latency spike at 20 seems stable for me -- and 3ms is rather small,
I've seen it up to 11ms (but typical in the 4-6 range). This does not
happen with NO_SIS_CURRENT and is a fairly big point against these
patches.

> 2. reducing the C2C overhead within 1 LLC

This is due to how L3 became non-inclusive with Skylake? I can't see
that because I don't have anything that recent :/

> So far I did not received performance difference from LKP on desktop
> test boxes. Let me queue the full test on some desktops to confirm
> if this change has any impact on them.

Right, so I've updated my netperf results above to have a relative
difference between NO_SIS_CURRENT and SIS_CURRENT and I see some losses
at the low end. For servers that gets compensated at the high end, but
desktops tend to not get there much.