Re: [patch] Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Tue Jul 07 2015 - 09:41:10 EST


On 07/07/2015 05:43 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 06:01 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 15:41 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:

So the NO_WAKE_WIDE_IDLE results are very good, almost the same as the
baseline with a slight regression at lower RPS and a slight improvement
at high RPS.

Good. I can likely drop the rest then (I like dinky, so do CPUs;). I'm
not real keen on the feature unless your numbers are really good, and
odds are that ain't gonna happen.

More extensive testing in pedantic-man mode increased my confidence of
that enough to sign off and ship the dirt simple version. Any further
twiddles should grow their own wings if they want to fly anyway, the
simplest form helps your real world load, as well as the not so real
pgbench, my numbers for that below.


The WAKE_WIDE_IDLE run was basically the same so I'm good with the KISS version. I'll run that through the load tests this morning and let you know how it goes. I'm still seeing a slight regression at lower RPS, but it's like 1-2%, compared to ~15%. Once load ramps up we're good to go, not sure why that is but it may also be my sample size (the cluster is only 32 boxes, the minimum for decent results). Thanks,

Josef

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