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SubjectRe: [LKP] [lkp] [sctp] a6c2f79287: netperf.Throughput_Mbps -37.2% regression
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Any update on this, Long?

Regards,
Aaron

On 08/08/2016 10:10 AM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:53:38PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
>>>> It doesn't make much sense to me. the codes I added cannot be
>>>> triggered without enable any pr policies. and I also did the tests in
>>>
>>> It seems these pr policies has to be turned on by user space, i.e.
>>> netperf in this case?
>>>
>>> I checked netperf's source code, it doesn't seem set any option
>>> related to SCTP PR POLICY but I'm new to network code so I could be
>>> wrong or missing something.
>>>
>>>> my local environment, the result looks normal to me compare to
>>>> prior version.
>>>
>>> Can you share your number?
>>> We run netperf like this:
>>> netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m 10K -H 127.0.0.1
>>> The full log of the run is attached for your reference.
>>
>> Now I also changed to linux-net.git
>>
>> commit 96b585267f552d4b6a28ea8bd75e5ed03deb6e71
>> [root@hp-dl388g8-08 ~]# uname -r
>> 4.7.0.new
>> [root@hp-dl388g8-08 ~]# netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 --
>> -m 10K -H 127.0.0.1
>> SCTP 1-TO-MANY STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
>> 127.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET
>> Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
>> Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
>> Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
>> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB
>>
>> 212992 212992 10240 300.00 11814.56 4.65 4.65 0.775 0.774
>>
>>
>> commit f959fb442c35f4b61fea341401b8463dd0a1b959 (just before the buggie patch)
>
> I'm testing on Linus' master, can we all use that please?
>
>> [root@localhost ~]# netperf -4 -t SCTP_STREAM_MANY -c -C -l 300 -- -m
>> 10K -H 127.0.0.1
>> SCTP 1-TO-MANY STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to
>> 127.0.0.1 () port 0 AF_INET
>> Recv Send Send Utilization Service Demand
>> Socket Socket Message Elapsed Send Recv Send Recv
>> Size Size Size Time Throughput local remote local remote
>> bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/s % S % S us/KB us/KB
>>
>> 212992 212992 10240 300.00 9454.90 5.22 5.22 1.086 1.085
>>
>>
>> I did tests on physical machine.
>> did you do it on guest ?
>
> The test is done on a ivy-bridge desktop with 8G memory:
> # cpudesc : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz
> # total memory : 8058152 kB
>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Recently the sctp performance is not stable, as during these patches,
>>>> netperf cannot get the result, but return ENOTCONN. which may
>>>> also affect the testing. anyway we've fixed the -ENOTCONN issue
>>>> already in the latest version.
>>>
>>> I tested commit 96b585267f55, which is Linus' git tree HEAD on 08/03, I
>>> guess the fix you mentioned should already be in there? But
>>> unfortunately, the throughput of netperf is still at low number(we did
>>> the test 5 times):
>>> $ cat */netperf.json
>>> {
>>> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>> 2470.6974999999998
>>> ]
>>> }{
>>> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>> 2486.7675
>>> ]
>>> }{
>>> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>> 2478.945
>>> ]
>>> }{
>>> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>> 2429.465
>>> ]
>>> }{
>>> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
>>> 2476.9150000000004
>>> ]
>>>
>>> Considering what you have said that the patch shouldn't make a
>>> difference, the performance drop is really confusing. Any idea what
>>> could be the cause? Thanks.
>> Now I saw your tests result against the new kernel
>>
>> Could you do the same test on the kernel before the problematic commit ?
>
> Yes, the throughput of its parent commit is higer enough to trigger the
> automatic bisect and then we send out the report.
>
> Throughput of its parent commit 826d253d57b1("sctp: add SCTP_PR_ASSOC_STATUS
> on sctp sockopt"):
> Average:
> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": 3923.84375,
>
> $ cat */netperf.json
> {
> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
> 3869.25375
> ]
> }{
> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
> 3952.58875
> ]
> }{
> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
> 3936.89625
> ]
> }{
> "netperf.Throughput_Mbps": [
> 3936.63625
> ]
> }
>
> Feel free to let me know if you need any more information or you want me
> to do more tests on other commits/machines, thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>

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