SCHED_ULE should not be the default
Jeremy Chadwick
freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Tue Dec 13 07:36:18 UTC 2011
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:47:57PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > Not fully right, boinc defaults to run on idprio 31 so this isn't an
> > issue. And yes, there are cases where SCHED_ULE shows much better
> > performance then SCHED_4BSD. [...]
>
> Do we have any proof at hand for such cases where SCHED_ULE performs
> much better than SCHED_4BSD? Whenever the subject comes up, it is
> mentioned, that SCHED_ULE has better performance on boxes with a ncpu >
> 2. But in the end I see here contradictionary statements. People
> complain about poor performance (especially in scientific environments),
> and other give contra not being the case.
>
> Within our department, we developed a highly scalable code for planetary
> science purposes on imagery. It utilizes present GPUs via OpenCL if
> present. Otherwise it grabs as many cores as it can.
> By the end of this year I'll get a new desktop box based on Intels new
> Sandy Bridge-E architecture with plenty of memory. If the colleague who
> developed the code is willing performing some benchmarks on the same
> hardware platform, we'll benchmark bot FreeBSD 9.0/10.0 and the most
> recent Suse. For FreeBSD I intent also to look for performance with both
> different schedulers available.
This is in no way shape or form the same kind of benchmark as what
you're planning to do, but I thought I'd throw it out there for folks to
take in as they see fit.
I know folks were focused mainly on buildworld.
I personally would find it interesting if someone with a higher-end
system (e.g. 2 physical CPUs, with 6 or 8 cores per CPU) was to do the
same test (changing -jX to -j{numofcores} of course).
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sched_ule
===========
- time make -j2 buildworld
1689.831u 229.328s 18:46.20 170.4% 6566+2051k 432+4264io 4565pf+0w
- time make -j2 buildkernel
640.542u 87.737s 9:01.38 134.5% 6490+1920k 134+5968io 0pf+0w
sched_4bsd
============
- time make -j2 buildworld
1662.793u 206.908s 17:12.02 181.1% 6578+2054k 23750+4271io 6451pf+0w
- time make -j2 buildkernel
638.717u 76.146s 8:34.90 138.8% 6530+1927k 6415+5903io 0pf+0w
software
==========
* sched_ule test: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, Thu Dec 1 04:37:29 PST 2011
* sched_4bsd test: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE, Mon Dec 12 22:42:54 PST 2011
hardware
==========
* Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 3GHz
* Supermicro X7SBA
* 8GB ECC RAM (4x2GB), DDR2-800
* Intel 320-series SSD, 80GB: /, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr
tuning adjustments / etc.
===========================
* Before each scheduler test, system was rebooted to ensure I/O cache
and other whatnots were empty
* All filesystems stock UFS2 + SU (root is non-SU)
* All filesystems had tunefs -t enable applied to them
* powerd(8) in use, with two rc.conf variables (per CPU spec):
performance_cx_lowest="C2"
economy_cx_lowest="C2"
* loader.conf
kern.maxdsiz="2560M"
kern.dfldsiz="2560M"
kern.maxssiz="256M"
ahci_load="yes"
hint.p4tcc.0.disabled="1"
hint.acpi_throttle.0.disabled="1"
vfs.zfs.arc_max="5120M"
* make.conf
CPUTYPE?=core2
* src.conf
WITHOUT_INET6=true
WITHOUT_IPFILTER=true
WITHOUT_LIB32=true
WITHOUT_KERBEROS=true
WITHOUT_PAM_SUPPORT=true
WITHOUT_PROFILE=true
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=true
* kernel configuration
- note: between kernel builds, config was changed to either use
SCHED_4BSD or SCHED_ULE respectively.
cpu HAMMER
ident GENERIC
makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
options SCHED_4BSD # Classic BSD scheduler
#options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories
options UFS_GJOURNAL # Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling
options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device
options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server
options NFSLOCKD # Network Lock Manager
options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization
options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat (sgtty)
options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
options STACK # stack(9) support
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES # POSIX-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions
options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 # Prevent printf output being interspersed.
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options HWPMC_HOOKS # Necessary kernel hooks for hwpmc(4)
options AUDIT # Security event auditing
options MAC # TrustedBSD MAC Framework
options FLOWTABLE # per-cpu routing cache
#options KDTRACE_FRAME # Ensure frames are compiled in
#options KDTRACE_HOOKS # Kernel DTrace hooks
options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel
# Make an SMP-capable kernel by default
options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
# Debugging options
options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER # Sending a serial BREAK drops to DDB
options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER # Permit <CR>~<Ctrl-b> to drop to DDB
options KDB # Enable kernel debugger support
options KDB_TRACE # Print stack trace automatically on panic
options DDB # Support DDB
options DDB_NUMSYM # Print numeric value of symbols
options GDB # Support remote GDB
# CPU frequency control
device cpufreq
# Bus support.
device acpi
device pci
# Floppy drives
device fdc
# ATA and ATAPI devices
# NOTE: "device ata" is missing because we use the Modular ATA core
# to only include the ATA-related drivers we need (e.g. AHCI).
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device ataraid # ATA RAID drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
# Modular ATA
device atacore # Core ATA functionality
device ataisa # ISA bus support
device atapci # PCI bus support; only generic chipset support
device ataahci # AHCI SATA
device ataintel # Intel
# SCSI peripherals
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device cd # CD
device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
options CAMDEBUG # CAM debugging (camcontrol debug)
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
# Serial (COM) ports
device uart # Generic UART driver
# PCI Ethernet NICs.
device em # Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Family
# Wireless NIC cards
device wlan # 802.11 support
options IEEE80211_DEBUG # enable debug msgs
options IEEE80211_AMPDU_AGE # age frames in AMPDU reorder q's
device wlan_wep # 802.11 WEP support
device wlan_ccmp # 802.11 CCMP support
device wlan_tkip # 802.11 TKIP support
device wlan_amrr # AMRR transmit rate control algorithm
device wlan_acl # MAC Access Control List support
# Pseudo devices.
device loop # Network loopback
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device pty # BSD-style compatibility pseudo ttys
device md # Memory "disks"
device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
device firmware # firmware assist module
# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
# Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP.
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device usb # USB Bus (required)
#device udbp # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device ums # Mouse
# Intel Core/Core2Duo CPU temperature monitoring driver
device coretemp
# SMBus support, needed for bsdhwmon
device smbus
device smb
device ichsmb
# Intel ICH hardware watchdog support
device ichwd
# pf ALTQ support
options ALTQ
options ALTQ_CBQ # Class Bases Queueing
options ALTQ_RED # Random Early Detection
options ALTQ_RIO # RED In/Out
options ALTQ_HFSC # Hierarchical Packet Scheduler
options ALTQ_CDNR # Traffic conditioner
options ALTQ_PRIQ # Priority Queueing
options ALTQ_NOPCC # Required for SMP build
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