Re: [LKP] [lkp] [sctp] a6c2f79287: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -37.2% regression

[Aaron Lu]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:45:42PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> >> Hi, Aaron
> >>
> >> 1)
> >> I talked with Marcelo about this one.
> >> He said it might be related with cacheline.  the  new field distroyed
> >> the prior cacheline. So on top of commit 826d253d57b1, pls only add
> >> +       unsigned long prsctp_param;
> >>
> >> to the end of struct sctp_chunk, then try.
> >
> > This doesn't work.
> >
> 
> If it's because of cache lines changed, I'm not sure this, either.
> Maybe 2) is a good way to fix it.

A comparison of the good commit 826d253d57b1 and the bad a6c2f792873a:

tests: 8
testcase/path_params/tbox_group/run: netperf/ipv4-300s-200%-cs-localhost-10K-SCTP_STREAM_MANY-performance/lkp-ivb-d02

826d253d57b11f69             a6c2f792873aff332a4689717c  
----------------             --------------------------  
         %stddev      change         %stddev
             \          |                \  
      3923             -37%       2461        netperf.Throughput_Mbps
         9             -78%          2        vmstat.procs.r
    112616              19%     133981        vmstat.system.cs
      4053               7%       4350        vmstat.system.in
      8598 Â  4%       957%      90912        softirqs.SCHED
  16466114             -37%   10305467        softirqs.NET_RX
    605899             -46%     329262        softirqs.TIMER
     72067 Â 10%       -63%      26356 Â  3%  softirqs.RCU
      4785 Â  7%        -9%       4352        slabinfo.anon_vma_chain.num_objs
       642 Â  7%        14%        731 Â  6%  slabinfo.kmalloc-512.active_objs
      4993              15%       5735        slabinfo.kmalloc-64.active_objs
      4993              15%       5735        slabinfo.kmalloc-64.num_objs
      2529 Â  4%       -15%       2150        proc-vmstat.nr_alloc_batch
 4.733e+08             -37%  2.999e+08        proc-vmstat.pgalloc_normal
 8.476e+08             -37%   5.36e+08        proc-vmstat.pgfree
 3.742e+08             -37%  2.361e+08        proc-vmstat.pgalloc_dma32
  1.48e+08             -37%   93033641        proc-vmstat.numa_hit
  1.48e+08             -37%   93033640        proc-vmstat.numa_local
      0.05 Â 17%     52102%      24.80        turbostat.CPU%c1
      0.64            3065%      20.10 Â  3%  turbostat.CPU%c6
      0.12 Â 39%      1900%       2.35 Â  3%  turbostat.Pkg%pc2
      0.46 Â 10%      1686%       8.22 Â  6%  turbostat.Pkg%pc6
     37.54             -14%      32.11        turbostat.PkgWatt
     20.20             -25%      15.22        turbostat.CorWatt
     99.31             -45%      54.97        turbostat.%Busy
      3269             -45%       1803        turbostat.Avg_MHz
     76510 Â 46%     3e+05%  1.954e+08        cpuidle.C1-IVB.time
     19769 Â 17%      5534%    1113742 Â  5%  cpuidle.C1E-IVB.time
       151 Â 11%      4175%       6454 Â  7%  cpuidle.C1E-IVB.usage
       114 Â 14%      6216%       7232 Â  5%  cpuidle.C3-IVB.usage
     33074 Â 14%      5159%    1739419 Â  3%  cpuidle.C3-IVB.time
      8874            4203%     381901        cpuidle.C6-IVB.usage
   8006184            4072%   3.34e+08        cpuidle.C6-IVB.time
     12019 Â 35%       303%      48398        perf-stat.cpu-migrations
  34232822              19%   40780053        perf-stat.context-switches
    339045               5%     354573        perf-stat.minor-faults
    339041               5%     354568        perf-stat.page-faults
 2.776e+11             -28%  2.003e+11        perf-stat.branch-instructions
 1.505e+12             -29%  1.065e+12        perf-stat.instructions
 6.421e+11             -30%  4.473e+11        perf-stat.dTLB-loads
  5.32e+11             -34%  3.536e+11        perf-stat.dTLB-stores
 1.173e+11             -38%  7.271e+10        perf-stat.cache-references
 3.735e+08 Â  5%       -48%  1.959e+08 Â  4%  perf-stat.iTLB-load-misses
 3.864e+09             -51%    1.9e+09        perf-stat.branch-misses
 4.069e+09 Â 20%       -56%  1.798e+09 Â 40%  perf-stat.dTLB-load-misses
 5.285e+08 Â 22%       -70%  1.585e+08 Â 16%  perf-stat.dTLB-store-misses
 7.126e+09 Â 16%       -97%   2.27e+08 Â  4%  perf-stat.cache-misses

The obvious change is:
1 the bad commit has a much fewer runnable process - vmstat.procs.r
2 the context switches are much higher in the bad commit - vmstat.system.cs

It all suggests the netperf processes go to sleep for some reason in the bad
commit.

I used "perf record -p one_netperf_pid -e probe:pick_next_task_idle" as
suggested by Tim to see where it went to sleep:

Samples: 78  of event 'probe:pick_next_task_idle', Event count(approx.): 78
  Children      Self  Trace output
  â-  100.00%   100.00%  (ffffffff810fc750)
  â     __sendmsg_nocancel
  â     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
  â     sys_sendmsg
  â     __sys_sendmsg
  â     ___sys_sendmsg
  â     inet_sendmsg
  â     sctp_sendmsg
  â     sctp_wait_for_sndbuf
  â     schedule_timeout
  â     schedule
  â     pick_next_task_idle

It doesn't look insane and sctp_wait_for_sndbuf may actually have
something to do with a larger sctp_chunk I suppose?

The same perf record doesn't capture any sample for the good commit,
which suggests the nerperf process doesn't sleep in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf.

Regards,
Aaron