On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 7:49 AM Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 6/3/19 2:04 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:03:04PM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote: > >> This patch series proposes an efficient mechanism for communicating free memory > >> from a guest to its hypervisor. It especially enables guests with no page cache > >> (e.g., nvdimm, virtio-pmem) or with small page caches (e.g., ram > disk) to > >> rapidly hand back free memory to the hypervisor. > >> This approach has a minimal impact on the existing core-mm infrastructure. > > Could you help us compare with Alex's series? > > What are the main differences? > Results on comparing the benefits/performance of Alexander's v1 > (bubble-hinting)[1], Page-Hinting (includes some of the upstream > suggested changes on v10) over an unmodified Kernel. > > Test1 - Number of guests that can be launched without swap usage. > Guest size: 5GB > Cores: 4 > Total NUMA Node Memory ~ 15 GB (All guests are running on a single node) > Process: Guest is launched sequentially after running an allocation > program with 4GB request. > > Results: > unmodified kernel: 2 guests without swap usage and 3rd guest with a swap > usage of 2.3GB. > bubble-hinting v1: 4 guests without swap usage and 5th guest with a swap > usage of 1MB. > Page-hinting: 5 guests without swap usage and 6th guest with a swap > usage of 8MB. > > > Test2 - Memhog execution time > Guest size: 6GB > Cores: 4 > Total NUMA Node Memory ~ 15 GB (All guests are running on a single node) > Process: 3 guests are launched and "time memhog 6G" is launched in each > of them sequentially. > > Results: > unmodified kernel: Guest1-40s, Guest2-1m5s, Guest3-6m38s (swap usage at > the end-3.6G) > bubble-hinting v1: Guest1-32s, Guest2-58s, Guest3-35s (swap usage at the > end-0) > Page-hinting: Guest1-42s, Guest2-47s, Guest3-32s (swap usage at the end-0) > > > Test3 - Will-it-scale's page_fault1 > Guest size: 6GB > Cores: 24 > Total NUMA Node Memory ~ 15 GB (All guests are running on a single node) > > unmodified kernel: > tasks,processes,processes_idle,threads,threads_idle,linear > 0,0,100,0,100,0 > 1,459168,95.83,459315,95.83,459315 > 2,956272,91.68,884643,91.72,918630 > 3,1407811,87.53,1267948,87.69,1377945 > 4,1755744,83.39,1562471,83.73,1837260 > 5,2056741,79.24,1812309,80.00,2296575 > 6,2393759,75.09,2025719,77.02,2755890 > 7,2754403,70.95,2238180,73.72,3215205 > 8,2947493,66.81,2369686,70.37,3674520 > 9,3063579,62.68,2321148,68.84,4133835 > 10,3229023,58.54,2377596,65.84,4593150 > 11,3337665,54.40,2429818,64.01,5052465 > 12,3255140,50.28,2395070,61.63,5511780 > 13,3260721,46.11,2402644,59.77,5971095 > 14,3210590,42.02,2390806,57.46,6430410 > 15,3164811,37.88,2265352,51.39,6889725 > 16,3144764,33.77,2335028,54.07,7349040 > 17,3128839,29.63,2328662,49.52,7808355 > 18,3133344,25.50,2301181,48.01,8267670 > 19,3135979,21.38,2343003,43.66,8726985 > 20,3136448,17.27,2306109,40.81,9186300 > 21,3130324,13.16,2403688,35.84,9645615 > 22,3109883,9.04,2290808,36.24,10104930 > 23,3136805,4.94,2263818,35.43,10564245 > 24,3118949,0.78,2252891,31.03,11023560 > > bubble-hinting v1: > tasks,processes,processes_idle,threads,threads_idle,linear > 0,0,100,0,100,0 > 1,292183,95.83,292428,95.83,292428 > 2,540606,91.67,501887,91.91,584856 > 3,821748,87.53,735244,88.31,877284 > 4,1033782,83.38,839925,85.59,1169712 > 5,1261352,79.25,896464,83.86,1462140 > 6,1459544,75.12,1050094,80.93,1754568 > 7,1686537,70.97,1112202,79.23,2046996 > 8,1866892,66.83,1083571,78.48,2339424 > 9,2056887,62.72,1101660,77.94,2631852 > 10,2252955,58.57,1097439,77.36,2924280 > 11,2413907,54.40,1088583,76.72,3216708 > 12,2596504,50.35,1117474,76.01,3509136 > 13,2715338,46.21,1087666,75.32,3801564 > 14,2861697,42.08,1084692,74.35,4093992 > 15,2964620,38.02,1087910,73.40,4386420 > 16,3065575,33.84,1099406,71.07,4678848 > 17,3107674,29.76,1056948,71.36,4971276 > 18,3144963,25.71,1094883,70.14,5263704 > 19,3173468,21.61,1073049,66.21,5556132 > 20,3173233,17.55,1072417,67.16,5848560 > 21,3209710,13.37,1079147,65.64,6140988 > 22,3182958,9.37,1085872,65.95,6433416 > 23,3200747,5.23,1076414,59.40,6725844 > 24,3181699,1.04,1051233,65.62,7018272 > > Page-hinting: > tasks,processes,processes_idle,threads,threads_idle,linear > 0,0,100,0,100,0 > 1,467693,95.83,467970,95.83,467970 > 2,967860,91.68,895883,91.70,935940 > 3,1408191,87.53,1279602,87.68,1403910 > 4,1766250,83.39,1557224,83.93,1871880 > 5,2124689,79.24,1834625,80.35,2339850 > 6,2413514,75.10,1989557,77.00,2807820 > 7,2644648,70.95,2158055,73.73,3275790 > 8,2896483,66.81,2305785,70.85,3743760 > 9,3157796,62.67,2304083,69.49,4211730 > 10,3251633,58.53,2379589,66.43,4679700 > 11,3313704,54.41,2349310,64.76,5147670 > 12,3285612,50.30,2362013,62.63,5615640 > 13,3207275,46.17,2377760,59.94,6083610 > 14,3221727,42.02,2416278,56.70,6551580 > 15,3194781,37.91,2334552,54.96,7019550 > 16,3211818,33.78,2399077,52.75,7487520 > 17,3172664,29.65,2337660,50.27,7955490 > 18,3177152,25.49,2349721,47.02,8423460 > 19,3149924,21.36,2319286,40.16,8891430 > 20,3166910,17.30,2279719,43.23,9359400 > 21,3159464,13.19,2342849,34.84,9827370 > 22,3167091,9.06,2285156,37.97,10295340 > 23,3174137,4.96,2365448,33.74,10763310 > 24,3161629,0.86,2253813,32.38,11231280 > > > Test4: Netperf > Guest size: 5GB > Cores: 4 > Total NUMA Node Memory ~ 15 GB (All guests are running on a single node) > Netserver: Running on core 0 > Netperf: Running on core 1 > Recv Socket Size bytes: 131072 > Send Socket Size bytes:16384 > Send Message Size bytes:1000000000 > Time: 900s > Process: netperf is run 3 times sequentially in the same guest with the > same inputs mentioned above and throughput (10^6bits/sec) is observed. > unmodified kernel: 1st Run-14769.60, 2nd Run-14849.18, 3rd Run-14842.02 > bubble-hinting v1: 1st Run-13441.77, 2nd Run-13487.81, 3rd Run-13503.87 > Page-hinting: 1st Run-14308.20, 2nd Run-14344.36, 3rd Run-14450.07 > > Drawback with bubble-hinting: > More invasive. > > Drawback with page-hinting: > Additional bitmap required, including growing/shrinking the bitmap on > memory hotplug. > > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/19/926 Any chance you could provide a .config for your kernel? I'm wondering what is different between the two as it seems like you are showing a significant regression in terms of performance for the bubble hinting/aeration approach versus a stock kernel without the patches and that doesn't match up with what I have been seeing. Also, any ETA for when we can look at the patches for the approach you have? Thanks. - Alex
