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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
	kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	oe-lkp@lists.linux.dev, lkp@intel.com,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	ying.huang@intel.com, feng.tang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [linux-next:master] [mm] 1111d46b5c: stress-ng.pthread.ops_per_sec -84.3% regression
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:49:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZYPDwCcAjX+r+g6s@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1974dc2-0e25-4075-a9ba-5e1face6c0cd@intel.com>

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 08:58:42AM +0800, Yin Fengwei wrote:
> Yes. MAP_STACK is also mentioned in manpage of mmap. I did test to
> filter out of the MAP_STACK mapping based on this patch. The regression
> in stress-ng.pthread was gone. I suppose this is kind of safe because
> the madvise call is only applied to glibc allocated stack.
> 
> 
> But what I am not sure was whether it's worthy to do such kind of change
> as the regression only is seen obviously in micro-benchmark. No evidence
> showed the other regressionsin this report is related with madvise. At
> least from the perf statstics. Need to check more on stream/ramspeed.

FWIW, we had a customer report a significant performance problem when
inadvertently using 2MB pages for stacks.  They were able to avoid it by
using 2044KiB sized stacks ...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-21  4:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-19 15:41 kernel test robot
2023-12-20  5:27 ` Yang Shi
2023-12-20  8:29   ` Yin Fengwei
2023-12-20 15:42     ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere)
2023-12-20 20:14       ` Yang Shi
2023-12-20 20:09     ` Yang Shi
2023-12-21  0:26       ` Yang Shi
2023-12-21  0:58         ` Yin Fengwei
2023-12-21  1:02           ` Yin Fengwei
2023-12-21  4:49           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-12-21  4:58             ` Yin Fengwei
2023-12-21 18:07             ` Yang Shi
2023-12-21 18:14               ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-12-22  1:06                 ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-12-22  2:23                   ` Huang, Ying
2023-12-21 13:39           ` Yin, Fengwei
2023-12-21 18:11             ` Yang Shi
2023-12-22  1:13               ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-01-04  1:32                 ` Yang Shi
2024-01-04  8:18                   ` Yin Fengwei
2024-01-04  8:39                     ` Oliver Sang
2024-01-05  9:29                       ` Oliver Sang
2024-01-05 14:52                         ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-01-05 18:49                         ` Yang Shi

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