Re: Re: [PATCHSET wq/for-6.8] workqueue: Implement system-wide max_active for unbound workqueues

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:46:07AM +0000, Naohiro Aota wrote:
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8260 CPU, 96 cores
> NUMA nodes: 2
> RAM: 1024 GB
> 
> However, for another benchmark experiment I'm doing, I booted the machine
> with "numa=off mem=16G" kernel command-line. I admit this is an unusual
> setup...

So, does that end up using only memory from one node while making the kernel
unaware of NUMA topology?

> On that machine, I create a fresh btrfs with "mkfs.btrfs -d raid0 -m raid0
> <devices>" with 6 SSD devices. And, I run the following command on the FS.
> 
> fio --group_reporting --eta=always --eta-interval=30s --eta-newline=30s \
>     --rw=write --fallocate=none \
>     --direct=1 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 \
>     --filesize=100G \
>     --blocksize=64k \
>     --time_based --runtime=300s \
>     --end_fsync=1 \
>     --directory=${MNT} \
>     --name=writer --numjobs=32
> 
> tools/workqueue/wq_dump.py output is pasted at the
> bottom. "btrfs-endio-write" is the workqueue, which had many workers on the
> unpatched kernel.

If so, I'm not sure how meaningful the result is. e.g. The perf would depend
heavily on random factors like which threads end up on which node and so on.
Sure, if we're slow because we're creating huge number of concurrent
workers, that's still a problem but comparing relatively small perf delta
might not be all that meaningful. How much is the result variance in that
setup?

> FYI, without the kernel command-line (i.e, numa=on and all RAM available as
> usual), as shown below, your patch series (v1) improved the performance
> significantly. It is even better than the reverted case.
> 
> - misc-next, numa=on
>   WRITE: bw=1121MiB/s (1175MB/s), 1121MiB/s-1121MiB/s (1175MB/s-1175MB/s), io=332GiB (356GB), run=303030-303030msec
> - misc-next+wq patches, numa=on
>   WRITE: bw=2185MiB/s (2291MB/s), 2185MiB/s-2185MiB/s (2291MB/s-2291MB/s), io=667GiB (717GB), run=312806-312806msec
> - misc-next+wq reverted, numa=on
>   WRITE: bw=1557MiB/s (1633MB/s), 1557MiB/s-1557MiB/s (1633MB/s-1633MB/s), io=659GiB (708GB), run=433426-433426msec

That looks pretty good, right?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun