Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFC] Improve load balancing when tasks have largeweight differential

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 17:29 -0700, Nikhil Rao wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have attached a series of patches that improve load balancing when there is a
> large weight differential between tasks. These patches are based off the
> feedback Peter Zijlstra gave in an earlier post (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1015966).
> They can be applied to v2.6.36-rc5 or -tip without conflicts.
> 
> Tested with the following setup.
> - Test machine is a 16 cpu box (quad-socket, quad-core).
> - Baseline is v2.6.36-rc5 kernel
> 
> We spawn 16 SCHED_IDLE soaker threads and one SCHED_NORMAL task. On the
> baseline kernel, the machine has ~18% idle time. With these patches applied on
> top of baseline, idle time drops to 0%.

Hm. I can get it stuck with one core idle on ym little quad.

top - 15:53:22 up 11 min, 17 users,  load average: 5.05, 4.40, 2.51
Tasks: 270 total,   7 running, 263 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 75.3%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 24.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  P COMMAND
 7455 root       5 -15  7996  340  256 R  100  0.0   0:59.93 1 pert
 7421 root      20   0  7996  340  256 R   50  0.0   4:20.01 3 pert
 7422 root      20   0  7996  340  256 R   50  0.0   3:45.81 2 pert
 7423 root      20   0  7996  340  256 R   50  0.0   4:09.45 2 pert
 7424 root      20   0  7996  344  256 R   50  0.0   4:12.75 3 pert


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