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    sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default · cb251765
    Mel Gorman authored
    
    
    schedstats is very useful during debugging and performance tuning but it
    incurs overhead to calculate the stats. As such, even though it can be
    disabled at build time, it is often enabled as the information is useful.
    
    This patch adds a kernel command-line and sysctl tunable to enable or
    disable schedstats on demand (when it's built in). It is disabled
    by default as someone who knows they need it can also learn to enable
    it when necessary.
    
    The benefits are dependent on how scheduler-intensive the workload is.
    If it is then the patch reduces the number of cycles spent calculating
    the stats with a small benefit from reducing the cache footprint of the
    scheduler.
    
    These measurements were taken from a 48-core 2-socket
    machine with Xeon(R) E5-2670 v3 cpus although they were also tested on a
    single socket machine 8-core machine with Intel i7-3770 processors.
    
    netperf-tcp
                               4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                                 vanilla          nostats-v3r1
    Hmean    64         560.45 (  0.00%)      575.98 (  2.77%)
    Hmean    128        766.66 (  0.00%)      795.79 (  3.80%)
    Hmean    256        950.51 (  0.00%)      981.50 (  3.26%)
    Hmean    1024      1433.25 (  0.00%)     1466.51 (  2.32%)
    Hmean    2048      2810.54 (  0.00%)     2879.75 (  2.46%)
    Hmean    3312      4618.18 (  0.00%)     4682.09 (  1.38%)
    Hmean    4096      5306.42 (  0.00%)     5346.39 (  0.75%)
    Hmean    8192     10581.44 (  0.00%)    10698.15 (  1.10%)
    Hmean    16384    18857.70 (  0.00%)    18937.61 (  0.42%)
    
    Small gains here, UDP_STREAM showed nothing intresting and neither did
    the TCP_RR tests. The gains on the 8-core machine were very similar.
    
    tbench4
                                     4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                                       vanilla          nostats-v3r1
    Hmean    mb/sec-1         500.85 (  0.00%)      522.43 (  4.31%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-2         984.66 (  0.00%)     1018.19 (  3.41%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-4        1827.91 (  0.00%)     1847.78 (  1.09%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-8        3561.36 (  0.00%)     3611.28 (  1.40%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-16       5824.52 (  0.00%)     5929.03 (  1.79%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-32      10943.10 (  0.00%)    10802.83 ( -1.28%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-64      15950.81 (  0.00%)    16211.31 (  1.63%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-128     15302.17 (  0.00%)    15445.11 (  0.93%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-256     14866.18 (  0.00%)    15088.73 (  1.50%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-512     15223.31 (  0.00%)    15373.69 (  0.99%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-1024    14574.25 (  0.00%)    14598.02 (  0.16%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-2048    13569.02 (  0.00%)    13733.86 (  1.21%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-3072    12865.98 (  0.00%)    13209.23 (  2.67%)
    
    Small gains of 2-4% at low thread counts and otherwise flat.  The
    gains on the 8-core machine were slightly different
    
    tbench4 on 8-core i7-3770 single socket machine
    Hmean    mb/sec-1        442.59 (  0.00%)      448.73 (  1.39%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-2        796.68 (  0.00%)      794.39 ( -0.29%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-4       1322.52 (  0.00%)     1343.66 (  1.60%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-8       2611.65 (  0.00%)     2694.86 (  3.19%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-16      2537.07 (  0.00%)     2609.34 (  2.85%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-32      2506.02 (  0.00%)     2578.18 (  2.88%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-64      2511.06 (  0.00%)     2569.16 (  2.31%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-128     2313.38 (  0.00%)     2395.50 (  3.55%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-256     2110.04 (  0.00%)     2177.45 (  3.19%)
    Hmean    mb/sec-512     2072.51 (  0.00%)     2053.97 ( -0.89%)
    
    In constract, this shows a relatively steady 2-3% gain at higher thread
    counts. Due to the nature of the patch and the type of workload, it's
    not a surprise that the result will depend on the CPU used.
    
    hackbench-pipes
                             4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                               vanilla          nostats-v3r1
    Amean    1        0.0637 (  0.00%)      0.0660 ( -3.59%)
    Amean    4        0.1229 (  0.00%)      0.1181 (  3.84%)
    Amean    7        0.1921 (  0.00%)      0.1911 (  0.52%)
    Amean    12       0.3117 (  0.00%)      0.2923 (  6.23%)
    Amean    21       0.4050 (  0.00%)      0.3899 (  3.74%)
    Amean    30       0.4586 (  0.00%)      0.4433 (  3.33%)
    Amean    48       0.5910 (  0.00%)      0.5694 (  3.65%)
    Amean    79       0.8663 (  0.00%)      0.8626 (  0.43%)
    Amean    110      1.1543 (  0.00%)      1.1517 (  0.22%)
    Amean    141      1.4457 (  0.00%)      1.4290 (  1.16%)
    Amean    172      1.7090 (  0.00%)      1.6924 (  0.97%)
    Amean    192      1.9126 (  0.00%)      1.9089 (  0.19%)
    
    Some small gains and losses and while the variance data is not included,
    it's close to the noise. The UMA machine did not show anything particularly
    different
    
    pipetest
                                 4.5.0-rc1             4.5.0-rc1
                                   vanilla          nostats-v2r2
    Min         Time        4.13 (  0.00%)        3.99 (  3.39%)
    1st-qrtle   Time        4.38 (  0.00%)        4.27 (  2.51%)
    2nd-qrtle   Time        4.46 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.57%)
    3rd-qrtle   Time        4.56 (  0.00%)        4.51 (  1.10%)
    Max-90%     Time        4.67 (  0.00%)        4.60 (  1.50%)
    Max-93%     Time        4.71 (  0.00%)        4.65 (  1.27%)
    Max-95%     Time        4.74 (  0.00%)        4.71 (  0.63%)
    Max-99%     Time        4.88 (  0.00%)        4.79 (  1.84%)
    Max         Time        4.93 (  0.00%)        4.83 (  2.03%)
    Mean        Time        4.48 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.91%)
    Best99%Mean Time        4.47 (  0.00%)        4.39 (  1.91%)
    Best95%Mean Time        4.46 (  0.00%)        4.38 (  1.93%)
    Best90%Mean Time        4.45 (  0.00%)        4.36 (  1.98%)
    Best50%Mean Time        4.36 (  0.00%)        4.25 (  2.49%)
    Best10%Mean Time        4.23 (  0.00%)        4.10 (  3.13%)
    Best5%Mean  Time        4.19 (  0.00%)        4.06 (  3.20%)
    Best1%Mean  Time        4.13 (  0.00%)        4.00 (  3.39%)
    
    Small improvement and similar gains were seen on the UMA machine.
    
    The gain is small but it stands to reason that doing less work in the
    scheduler is a good thing. The downside is that the lack of schedstats and
    tracepoints may be surprising to experts doing performance analysis until
    they find the existence of the schedstats= parameter or schedstats sysctl.
    It will be automatically activated for latencytop and sleep profiling to
    alleviate the problem. For tracepoints, there is a simple warning as it's
    not safe to activate schedstats in the context when it's known the tracepoint
    may be wanted but is unavailable.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454663316-22048-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    cb251765