Re: 4.3 group scheduling regression

From: Yuyang Du
Date: Mon Oct 12 2015 - 04:42:27 EST


Good morning, Peter.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:04:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:44:57AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > It's odd to me that things look pretty much the same good/bad tree with
> > hogs vs hogs or hogs vs tbench (with top anyway, just adding up times).
> > Seems Xorg+mplayer more or less playing cross group ping-pong must be
> > the BadThing trigger.
>
> Ohh, wait, Xorg and mplayer are _not_ in the same group? I was assuming
> you had your entire user session in 1 (auto) group and was competing
> against 8 manual cgroups.
>
> So how exactly are things configured?

Hmm... my impression is the naughty boy mplayer (+Xorg) isn't favored, due
to the per CPU group entity share distribution. Let me dig more.

Sorry.
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