Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 5:17 PM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > * Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I have the same environment setup above, for nosmt cases, I used
> > > /sys interface Thomas mentioned, below is the result:
> > >
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 1/1      1.987( 1.97%)   2.043( 1.76%) -2.84% 1.985( 1.70%)  0.12%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 2/2      2.074( 1.16%)   2.057( 2.09%)  0.81% 2.072( 0.77%)  0.10%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 4/4      2.140( 0.00%)   2.138( 0.49%)  0.09% 2.137( 0.89%)  0.12%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 8/8      2.140( 0.00%)   2.144( 0.53%) -0.17% 2.140( 0.00%)  0.00%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 16/16    2.361( 2.99%)   2.369( 2.65%) -0.30% 2.406( 2.53%) -1.87%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 32/32    5.032( 8.68%)   3.485( 0.49%) 30.76% 6.002(27.21%) -19.27%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 64/64    7.577(34.35%)   3.972(23.18%) 47.57% 18.235(14.14%) -140.68%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 128/128 24.639(14.28%)  27.440( 8.24%) -11.37% 34.746( 6.92%) -41.02%
> > > NA/AVX  baseline(std%)  coresched(std%) +/-     nosmt(std%) +/-
> > > 256/256 38.797( 8.59%)  44.067(16.20%) -13.58% 42.536( 7.57%) -9.64%
> >
> > What do these numbers mean? Are these latencies, i.e. lower is better?
> 
> Yeah, like above setup, I run sysbench(Non-AVX task, NA) and gemmbench
> (AVX512 task, AVX) in different level utilizatoin. The machine has 104 CPUs, so
> nosmt has 52 CPUs.  These numbers are 95th percentile latency of sysbench,
> lower is better.

But what we are really interested in are throughput numbers under these 
three kernel variants, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo