Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm/page_alloc: Free pages in a single pass during bulk free

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 12:20:03PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 09:31:13AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 09:53:08AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > > > 2-socket CascadeLake (40 cores, 80 CPUs HT enabled)
> > > >                                                     5.17.0-rc3                 5.17.0-rc3
> > > >                                                        vanilla           mm-highpcpopt-v2
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-2        2694662.26 (   0.00%)      2695780.35 (   0.04%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-5        6425819.34 (   0.00%)      6435544.57 *   0.15%*
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-8        9642169.10 (   0.00%)      9658962.39 (   0.17%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-12      12167502.10 (   0.00%)     12190163.79 (   0.19%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-21      15636859.03 (   0.00%)     15612447.26 (  -0.16%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-30      25157348.61 (   0.00%)     25169456.65 (   0.05%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-48      27694013.85 (   0.00%)     27671111.46 (  -0.08%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-79      25928742.64 (   0.00%)     25934202.02 (   0.02%) <--
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-110     25730869.75 (   0.00%)     25671880.65 *  -0.23%*
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-141     25626992.42 (   0.00%)     25629551.61 (   0.01%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-172     25611651.35 (   0.00%)     25614927.99 (   0.01%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-203     25577298.75 (   0.00%)     25583445.59 (   0.02%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-234     25580686.07 (   0.00%)     25608240.71 (   0.11%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-265     25570215.47 (   0.00%)     25568647.58 (  -0.01%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-296     25549488.62 (   0.00%)     25543935.00 (  -0.02%)
> > > > Hmean     page_fault1-processes-320     25555149.05 (   0.00%)     25575696.74 (   0.08%)
> > > > 
> > > > The differences are mostly within the noise and the difference close to
> > > > $nr_cpus is negligible.
> > > 
> > > I have queued will-it-scale/page_fault1/processes/$nr_cpu on 2 4-sockets
> > > servers: CascadeLake and CooperLaker and will let you know the result
> > > once it's out.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks, 4 sockets and a later generation would be nice to cover.
> > 
> > > I'm using 'https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm master' and doing the
> > > comparison with commit c000d687ce22("mm/page_alloc: simplify how many
> > > pages are selected per pcp list during bulk free") and commit 8391e0a7e172
> > > ("mm/page_alloc: free pages in a single pass during bulk free") there.
> > > 
> > 
> > The baseline looks fine. It's different to what I used but the page_alloc
> > shouldn't have much impact.
> > 
> > When looking at will-it-scale, please pay attention to lower CPU counts
> > as well and take account changes in standard deviation. Looking at the
> 
> I'll also test nr_task=4/16/64 on the 4sockets CooperLake(nr_cpu=144) then.
> 

For the record, these tests don't show any visible performance changes
on CooperLake.




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