On 11/23/20 10:53 AM, kernel test robot wrote:

Greeting,

FYI, we noticed a -25.5% regression of unixbench.score due to commit:


commit: 10a59003d29fbfa855b2ef4f3534fee9bdf4e575 ("[PATCH v2 5/5] locking/rwsem: 
Remove reader optimistic spinning")
url: 
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Waiman-Long/locking-rwsem-Rework-reader-optimistic-spinning/20201121-122118
base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 
932f8c64d38bb08f69c8c26a2216ba0c36c6daa8

in testcase: unixbench
on test machine: 16 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2278G CPU @ 3.40GHz with 32G 
memory
with following parameters:

        runtime: 300s
        nr_task: 30%
        test: shell8
        cpufreq_governor: performance
        ucode: 0xde

test-description: UnixBench is the original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite aims to 
test performance of Unix-like system.
test-url: https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench

In addition to that, the commit also has significant impact on the following 
tests:

+------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| testcase: change | fio-basic: fio.write_iops -29.9% regression                
               |
| test machine     | 192 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.20GHz with 192G 
memory               |
| test parameters  | bs=4k                                                      
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|                  | cpufreq_governor=performance                               
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|                  | disk=1SSD                                                  
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|                  | fs=xfs                                                     
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|                  | ioengine=sync                                              
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|                  | nr_task=32                                                 
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|                  | runtime=300s                                               
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|                  | rw=randwrite                                               
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|                  | test_size=256g                                             
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|                  | ucode=0x4003003                                            
               |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| testcase: change | aim7: aim7.jobs-per-min 952.6% improvement                 
               |
| test machine     | 96 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8260L CPU @ 2.40GHz 
with 128G memory |
| test parameters  | cpufreq_governor=performance                               
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|                  | disk=4BRD_12G                                              
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|                  | fs=f2fs                                                    
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|                  | load=100                                                   
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|                  | md=RAID0                                                   
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|                  | test=sync_disk_rw                                          
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|                  | ucode=0x4003003                                            
               |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

A performance drop in some benchmark is expected. However, there are others that can show improvement. Will take a look to see if we can reduce the performance regression.

Thanks,
Longman

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