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Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel observed on ARM64

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for the report.

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:37:55PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> I have updated the kernel to 4.11 and see significant performance
> drops using fio-2.9.
> 
> Using FIO the performanced drops from 281 KIOPS to 207 KIOPS using
> single core and task.
> Percent performance drop becomes even worse if multi-cores and multi-
> threads are used.
> 
> Platform is ARM64 based A72.  Can somebody reproduce the results or
> know what may have changed to make such a dramatic change?
> 
> FIO command and resulting log output below using null_blk to remove
> as many hardware specific driver dependencies as possible.
> 
> modprobe null_blk queue_mode=2 irqmode=0 completion_nsec=0
> submit_queues=1 bs=4096
> 
> taskset 0x1 fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --numjobs=1
> --gtod_reduce=1 --name=readtest --filename=/dev/nullb0 --bs=4k
> --iodepth=128 --time_based --runtime=15 --readwrite=read

I can confirm that I also see a ~20% drop in results from 4.10 to 4.11 on
my AMD Seattle board w/ defconfig, but I can't see anything obvious in the
log.

Things you could try:

  1. Try disabling CONFIG_NUMA in the 4.11 kernel (this was enabled in
     defconfig between the releases).

  2. Try to reproduce on an x86 box

  3. Have a go at bisecting the issue, so we can revert the offender if
     necessary.

Cheers,

Will

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FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel observed on  ARM64 Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-06 03:40 +0200
  Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-06 04:00 +0200
  Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-05-08 13:10 +0200
    Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-08 13:30 +0200
      Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2017-05-08 17:30 +0200
        Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-08 18:40 +0200
        Re: FIO performance regression in 4.11 kernel vs. 4.10 kernel  observed on ARM64 Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-08 19:40 +0200

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