Re: [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #2

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 at 17:02:07 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> do wakeup-balancing only if the wakeup-CPU is idle.
>
> this prevents excessive wakeup-balancing while the system is highly
> loaded, but helps spread out the workload on partly idle systems.

I tested this with Volanomark on dual-processor PII Xeon -- the
results were very bad:

Before: 5863 messages per second

124169 schedule                                  64.1369
 64663 _spin_unlock_irqrestore                  4041.4375
  7949 tcp_clean_rtx_queue                        6.5370
  6787 net_rx_action                             24.9522
 
After: 5569 messages per second

139417 schedule                                  72.0129
 82169 _spin_unlock_irqrestore                  5135.5625
  9949 tcp_clean_rtx_queue                        8.1817
  7917 net_rx_action                             29.1066

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Chuck
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