Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:03:30 +0100 | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [4.17 regression] Performance drop on kernel-4.17 visible on Stream, Linpack and NAS parallel benchmarks |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:45:51AM +0200, Jirka Hladky wrote: > Hi Mel, > > we have compared 4.18 + git:// > git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git > sched-numa-fast-crossnode-v1r12 against 4.16 kernel and performance results > look very good! >
Excellent, thanks to both Kamil and yourself for collecting the data. It's helpful to have independent verification.
> We see performance gains about 10-20% for SPECjbb2005. NAS results are a > little bit noisy but show overall performance gains as well (total runtime > for reduced from 6 hours 34 minutes to 6 hours 26 minutes to give you a > specific example).
Great.
> The only benchmark showing a slight regression is stream > - but the regression is just a few percents ( upto 10%) and I think it's > not a real concern given that it's an artificial benchmark. >
Agreed.
> How is your testing going? Do you think > that sched-numa-fast-crossnode-v1r12 series can make it into the 4.18? >
My own testing completed and the results are within expectations and I saw no red flags. Unfortunately, I consider it unlikely they'll be merged for 4.18. Srikar Dronamraju's series is likely to need another update and I would need to rebase my patches on top of that. Given the scope and complexity, I find it unlikely they would be accepted for an -rc, particularly this late of an rc. Whether we hit the 4.19 merge window or not will depend on when Srikar's series gets updated.
> Thanks a lot for your efforts to improve the performance!
My pleasure.
-- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs
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