Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] sched: entity load-tracking re-work

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:38:26 -0800, Paul Turner <pjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The attached series is an RFC on implementing load tracking at the entity
> instead of cfs_rq level. This results in a bottom-up load-computation in which
> entities contribute to their parents load, as opposed to the current top-down
> where the parent averages its children.  In particular this allows us to
> correctly migrate load with their accompanying entities and provides the
> necessary inputs for intelligent load-balancing and power-management.
> 
> It was previously well tested and stable, but that was on v3.1-; there's been
> some fairly extensive changes in the wake-up path since so apologies if anything
> was broken in the rebase.Note also, since this is also an RFC on the approach I
> have not yet de-linted the various CONFIG combinations for introduced compiler
> errors.
> 

I gave a quick run to this series, and it seems the fairness across
taskgroups is broken with this.

Test setup:
Machine : IBM xSeries with Intel(R) Xeon(R) x5570 2.93GHz CPU with 8
core, 64GB RAM, 16 cpu.

Create 3 taskgroups: fair16, fair32 and fair48 having 16, 32 and 48
cpu-hog tasks respectively. They have equal shares(default 1024), so
they should consume roughly the same time.

120secs run 1:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  712912 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  650977 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  575681 Tasks: 48

120secs run 2:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  686295 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  643474 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  611415 Tasks: 48

600secs run 1:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  4109678 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  1743983 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  3759826 Tasks: 48

600secs run 2:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  3893365 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  3028280 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  2692001 Tasks: 48

As you can see there is a lot of variance in the above results.

wo patches
120secs run 1:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  667644 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  653771 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  624915 Tasks: 48

600secs run 1:
Time consumed by fair16 cgroup:  3278425 Tasks: 16
Time consumed by fair32 cgroup:  3140335 Tasks: 32
Time consumed by fair48 cgroup:  3198817 Tasks: 48

Regards
Nikunj

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