On 11/1/19 2:41 AM, Feng Tang wrote:
> Hi Yang,
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 04:46:05PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>> Greeting,
>>
>> FYI, we noticed a -19.6% regression of stress-ng.madvise.ops_per_sec due to
commit:
>>
>>
>> commit: 87eaceb3faa59b9b4d940ec9554ce251325d83fe ("mm: thp: make deferred
split shrinker memcg aware")
>>
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
>>
>> in testcase: stress-ng
>> on test machine: 72 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 192G
memory
>> with following parameters:
>>
>> nr_threads: 100%
>> disk: 1HDD
>> testtime: 1s
>> class: vm
>> ucode: 0x200005e
>> cpufreq_governor: performance
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen(a)intel.com>
>>
>>
>> Details are as below:
>>
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>>
>>
>> To reproduce:
>>
>> git clone
https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git
>> cd lkp-tests
>> bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email
>> bin/lkp run job.yaml
>>
>>
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>>
class/compiler/cpufreq_governor/disk/kconfig/nr_threads/rootfs/tbox_group/testcase/testtime/ucode:
>>
vm/gcc-7/performance/1HDD/x86_64-rhel-7.6/100%/debian-x86_64-2019-05-14.cgz/lkp-skl-2sp8/stress-ng/1s/0x200005e
>>
>> commit:
>> 0a432dcbeb ("mm: shrinker: make shrinker not depend on memcg
kmem")
>> 87eaceb3fa ("mm: thp: make deferred split shrinker memcg aware")
>>
>> 0a432dcbeb32edcd 87eaceb3faa59b9b4d940ec9554
>> ---------------- ---------------------------
>> %stddev %change %stddev
>> \ | \
>> 6457 -19.5% 5198 stress-ng.madvise.ops
>> 6409 -19.6% 5154 stress-ng.madvise.ops_per_sec
> Do you have any clue on this?
I replied the email once I got this report, please see
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d30b1358-fb6b-2658-e675-ceff3bc465ab@linux.a...
And, the potential fix had been posted to the mailing list, please see
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1569968203-64647-1-git-send-email-yang.s...
But, the review looks stalled, I will try to move it forward.