On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:47:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Dave Chinner <da...@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> >
> > Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the
> > degradation is far worse when using the large memory footprint
> > configs. Perf points straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1
> > on the "-o bhash=101073" config:
> >
> > - 56.07% 56.07% [kernel] [k]
> > default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
> > - 99.99% physflat_send_IPI_mask
> > - 99.37% native_send_call_func_ipi
> ..
> >
> > And the same profile output from 3.19 shows:
> >
> > - 9.61% 9.61% [kernel] [k]
> > default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
> > - 99.98% physflat_send_IPI_mask
> > - 96.26% native_send_call_func_ipi
> ...
> >
> > So either there's been a massive increase in the number of IPIs
> > being sent, or the cost per IPI have greatly increased. Either way,
> > the result is a pretty significant performance degradatation.
....
> I assume it's the mm queue from Andrew, so adding him to the cc. There
> are changes to the page migration etc, which could explain it.
>
> There are also a fair amount of APIC changes in 4.0-rc1, so I guess it
> really could be just that the IPI sending itself has gotten much
> slower. Adding Ingo for that, although I don't think
> default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys() itself hasn't actually changed,
> only other things around the apic. So I'd be inclined to blame the mm
> changes.
>
> Obviously bisection would find it..
Yes, though the time it takes to do a 13 step bisection means it's
something I don't do just for an initial bug report. ;)
Anyway, the difference between good and bad is pretty clear, so
I'm pretty confident the bisect is solid:
4d9424669946532be754a6e116618dcb58430cb4 is the first bad commit
commit 4d9424669946532be754a6e116618dcb58430cb4
Author: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Date: Thu Feb 12 14:58:28 2015 -0800
mm: convert p[te|md]_mknonnuma and remaining page table manipulations
With PROT_NONE, the traditional page table manipulation functions are
sufficient.
[andre.przyw...@arm.com: fix compiler warning in pmdp_invalidate()]
[a...@linux-foundation.org: fix build with STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
:040000 040000 50985a3f84e80bb2bdd049d4f34739d99436f988
1bc79bfac2c138844373b603f9bc5914f0d010f3 M arch
:040000 040000 ea69bcd1c59f832a4b012a57b4eb1d0c7516947d
0822692fa6c356952e723b56038585716fa51723 M include
:040000 040000 c11960b9f1ee72edb08dc3fdc46f590fb1d545f7
f5d17ff5b639adcb7363a196a9efe70f2a7312b5 M mm
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
da...@fromorbit.com
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