Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:05:42 +0100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | lmbench lat_mmap slowdown with CONFIG_PARAVIRT |
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Hi,
I'm looking at regressions since 2.6.16, and one is lat_mmap has slowed down. On further investigation, a large part of this is not due to a _regression_ as such, but the introduction of CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y.
Now, it is true that lat_mmap is basically a microbenchmark, however it is exercising the memory mapping and page fault handler paths, so we're talking about pretty important paths here. So I think it should be of interest.
I've run the tests on a 2s8c AMD Barcelona system, binding the test to CPU0, and running 100 times (stddev is a bit hard to bring down, and my scripts needed 100 runs in order to pick up much smaller changes in the results -- for CONFIG_PARAVIRT, just a couple of runs should show up the problem).
Times I believe are in nanoseconds for lmbench, anyway lower is better.
non pv AVG=464.22 STD=5.56 paravirt AVG=502.87 STD=7.36
Nearly 10% performance drop here, which is quite a bit... hopefully people are testing the speed of their PV implementations against non-PV bare metal :)
CPU: AMD64 family10, speed 2000 MHz (estimated) Counted CPU_CLK_UNHALTED events (Cycles outside of halt state) with a unit mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 10000 samples % symbol name BASE 49749 32.6336 read_tsc 10151 6.6587 __up_read 7363 4.8299 unmap_vmas 7072 4.6390 mnt_drop_write 4107 2.6941 do_page_fault 4090 2.6829 rb_get_reader_page 3601 2.3621 apic_timer_interrupt 3537 2.3202 set_page_dirty 3435 2.2532 mnt_want_write 3302 2.1660 default_idle 2990 1.9613 idle_cpu 2904 1.9049 file_update_time 2789 1.8295 set_page_dirty_balance 2712 1.7790 retint_swapgs 2455 1.6104 __do_fault 2231 1.4635 release_pages 1989 1.3047 rb_buffer_peek 1895 1.2431 ring_buffer_consume 1572 1.0312 handle_mm_fault 1554 1.0194 put_page 1461 0.9584 sync_buffer 1196 0.7845 clear_page_c 1145 0.7511 rb_advance_reader 1144 0.7504 hweight64 1084 0.7111 getnstimeofday 1076 0.7058 __set_page_dirty_no_writeback 1020 0.6691 mark_page_accessed 751 0.4926 tick_do_update_jiffies64
CONFIG_PARAVIRT 8924 7.8849 native_safe_halt 8823 7.7957 native_read_tsc 6201 5.4790 default_spin_lock_flags 5806 5.1300 unmap_vmas 3996 3.5307 handle_mm_fault 3954 3.4936 rb_get_reader_page 3752 3.3151 __do_fault 2908 2.5694 getnstimeofday 2303 2.0348 apic_timer_interrupt 2183 1.9288 find_busiest_group 2057 1.8175 do_page_fault 2057 1.8175 hweight64 2017 1.7821 set_page_dirty 1926 1.7017 get_next_timer_interrupt 1781 1.5736 release_pages 1702 1.5038 native_pte_val 1620 1.4314 native_sched_clock 1588 1.4031 rebalance_domains 1558 1.3766 run_timer_softirq 1531 1.3527 __down_read_trylock 1505 1.3298 native_pmd_val 1445 1.2767 find_get_page 1369 1.2096 find_next_bit 1356 1.1981 __ticket_spin_lock 1225 1.0824 shmem_getpage 1169 1.0329 radix_tree_lookup_slot 1166 1.0302 vm_normal_page 987 0.8721 scheduler_tick
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