Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-12-13 Thread b...@redhat.com
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Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-30 Thread Mike Rapoport
lt-li...@googlegroups.com; rost...@goodmis.org; Rajender M; Yiu Cho > Lau; Peter Jonasson; Venkatesh Rajaram > Subject: Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel > > On 11/20/20 at 03:11am, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > > Hi Baoquan, > > >

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-21 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/20/20 at 03:11am, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > To which commit should we apply the draft patch. We tried applying > the patch to the commit 3e4fb4346c781068610d03c12b16c0cfb0fd24a3 > (the one we used for applying the previous patch) but it fails. I tested on 5.10-rc3+. You can a

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-19 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
"boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel   On 11/03/20 at 12:34pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> So, you mean with the draft patch applied, the initial performance > regression goes away, just many page corruption errors with call trace > are seen, right? > > Yes, that'

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-12 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/03/20 at 12:34pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> So, you mean with the draft patch applied, the initial performance > regression goes away, just many page corruption errors with call trace > are seen, right? > > Yes, that's right. > > >> And the performance regression is about 2sec delay in >

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-03 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 11/03/20 at 12:34pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> So, you mean with the draft patch applied, the initial performance > regression goes away, just many page corruption errors with call trace > are seen, right? > > Yes, that's right. > > >> And the performance regression is about 2sec delay in >

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-03 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
u; Peter Jonasson; Venkatesh Rajaram Subject: Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel On 11/02/20 at 02:15pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > There could still be some memory initialization problem with > the draft patch. I see a lot of

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-02 Thread b...@redhat.com
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Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-11-02 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
rost...@goodmis.org; Rajender M; Yiu Cho Lau; Peter Jonasson; Venkatesh Rajaram Subject: Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel Hi Baoquan, >> Can you tell how you measure the boot time? Our test is actually boothalt, time reported by this test incl

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-22 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
h Rajaram Subject: Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel   Hi Rahul, On 10/20/20 at 03:26pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> Here, do you mean it even cost more time with the patch applied? > > Yes, we ran it multiple times and i

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-21 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Rahul, On 10/20/20 at 03:26pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > >> Here, do you mean it even cost more time with the patch applied? > > Yes, we ran it multiple times and it looks like there is a > very minor increase with the patch. > ..  > On 10/20/20 at 01:45pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > > Hi B

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-20 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
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Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-20 Thread b...@redhat.com
--- > > We have attached default dmesg logs and also dmesg logs collected with > memblock=debug kernel cmdline for both vanilla and patched kernels. Let me > know if you need more info. > > > > From: b...@redhat.com > Sent: 13 October 2020 6:47

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-13 Thread b...@redhat.com
Hi Rahul, On 10/12/20 at 05:21pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > Attached collected dmesg logs for with and without > commit after adding memblock=debug to kernel cmdline. Can you test below draft patch and see if it works for you? >From a2ea6caef3c73ad9efb2dd2b48039065fe430bb2 Mon S

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-12 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 10/12/20 at 05:21pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > Hi Baoquan, > > Attached collected dmesg logs for with and without > commit after adding memblock=debug to kernel cmdline. Thanks, I have got the root cause, will make a patch for your testing soon.

Re: Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-09 Thread b...@redhat.com
On 10/09/20 at 01:15pm, Rahul Gopakumar wrote: > As part of VMware's performance regression testing for Linux Kernel > upstream releases, we identified boot time increase when comparing > Linux 5.8 kernel against Linux 5.7 kernel. Increase in boot time is > noticeable on VM with a **large amount of

Performance regressions in "boot_time" tests in Linux 5.8 Kernel

2020-10-09 Thread Rahul Gopakumar
As part of VMware's performance regression testing for Linux Kernel upstream releases, we identified boot time increase when comparing Linux 5.8 kernel against Linux 5.7 kernel. Increase in boot time is noticeable on VM with a **large amount of memory**.   In our test cases, it's noticeable with me