[focal:linux][PATCH 0/1] LP:#1756311 -

[Colin Ian King]

On 08/04/2021 00:50, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756311

Is thus the correct buglink?

> 
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y Kconfig option causes the kernel to avoid
> sending scheduling-clock interrupts to CPUs with a single runnable
> task, and such CPUs are said to be "adaptive-ticks CPUs". This is
> important for applications with aggressive real-time response
> constraints because it allows them to improve their worst-case
> response times by the maximum duration of a scheduling-clock
> interrupt. It is also important for computationally intensive
> short-iteration workloads: If any CPU is delayed during a given
> iteration, all the other CPUs will be forced to wait idle while the
> delayed CPU finishes. Thus, the delay is multiplied by one less than
> the number of CPUs. In these situations, there is again strong
> motivation to avoid sending scheduling-clock interrupts.
> 
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> In order to verify the change will not cause performance issues in
> context switch we should compare the results for:
> 
> ./stress-ng --seq 0 --metrics-brief -t 15

Some of those stress tests will have a lot of jitter and random
variance. Running tests multiple times for longer durations is best, so
I've actually got some performance tests already for this kind of
testing...  the autotest-client-tests that may be better to run are:

ubuntu_performance_stress_ng
ubuntu_performance_stream
ubuntu_performance_latency
ubuntu_performance_misc

I can't see the test data but since these changes affect a range of
architectures were the tests run on all the architectures affected by
the config changes?

> 
> Running on a dedicated machine and with the following services
> disabled: smartd.service, iscsid.service, apport.service,
> cron.service, anacron.timer, apt-daily.timer, apt-daily-upgrade.timer,
> fstrim.timer, logrotate.timer, motd-news.timer, man-db.timer.
> 
> The results didn't show any performance regression:
> 
> https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~mhcerri/lp1919154/

I can't read the data - I don't have read permsssion.
> 
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> Performance degradation might happen for workloads with intensive
> context switching.
> 
> 
> ---
> Marcelo Henrique Cerri (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y
> 
>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.common.amd64  |  1 +
>  debian.master/config/annotations                | 17 +++++++++--------
>  debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64  |  1 +
>  debian.master/config/armhf/config.common.armhf  |  1 +
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu       |  9 ++++++---
>  debian.master/config/i386/config.common.i386    |  1 +
>  .../config/ppc64el/config.common.ppc64el        |  2 +-
>  debian.master/config/s390x/config.common.s390x  |  2 +-
>  8 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>