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Date:   Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:27:32 +0200
From:   Jakub Racek <jracek@redhat.com>
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Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
        jracek@redhat.com
Subject: [4.17 regression] Performance drop on kernel-4.17 visible on Stream,
 Linpack and NAS parallel benchmarks
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Hi,

There is a huge performance regression on the 2 and 4 NUMA node systems on stream 
benchmark with 4.17 kernel compared to 4.16 kernel. 
Stream, Linpack and NAS parallel benchmarks show upto 50% performance drop.

When running for example 20 stream processes in parallel, we see the following behavior:

* all processes are started at NODE #1
* memory is also allocated on NODE #1
* roughly half of the processes are moved to the NODE #0 very quickly. 
* however, memory is not moved to NODE #0 and stays allocated on NODE #1

As the result, half of the processes are running on NODE#0 with memory being still 
allocated on NODE#1. This leads to non-local memory accesses
on the high Remote-To-Local Memory Access Ratio on the numatop charts.  

So it seems that 4.17 is not doing a good job to move the memory to the right NUMA
node after the process has been moved.

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The above is an excerpt from performance testing on 4.16 and 4.17 kernels.

For now I'm merely making sure the problem is reported.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Jakub Racek