Re: [PATCH] sched: wake-affine throttle

From: Michael Wang
Date: Thu May 02 2013 - 03:37:01 EST


On 05/02/2013 03:10 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>
>> I've done the test for several times, also compared with the throttle
>> approach, default 1ms interval still works very well, the regression on
>> hackbench start to exceed 2% when interval become 100ms on my box, but
>> please note the pgbench already gain a lot benefit at that time.
>>
>> I think now we could say that wake-affine is useful, and we could not
>> simply kill it.
>
> Oh, it's definitely useful. Communicating tasks deeply resent talking
> over interconnects (advanced tin cans and string). My little Q6600 box
> can even be described as dinky-numa given enough imagination.. place
> communicating tasks on different core2 "nodes" if you will, throughput
> falls through the floor. Shared L2 is quick like bunny, dram ain't.

Nice, so we got another proof to defend wake-affine now ;-)

Regards,
Michael Wang

>
> -Mike
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