Re: [RFC PATCH v2] sched: Limit idle_balance()

[Jason Low]

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 16:54 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote:
> Hi Json,
> 
> I ran ebizzy and kernbench benchmarks on your 3.11-rc1 + your        "V1
> patch" on a 1 socket, 16 core powerpc machine. I thought I would let you
> know the results before I try your V2.
> 
> Ebizzy: 30 seconds run. The table below shows the improvement in the
> number of records completed. I have not spent enough time on the patch
> to explain such a big improvement.
> 
> Number_of_threads   %improvement_with_patch
>     4                          41.86%
>     8                          9.8%
>    12                          34.77%
>    16                          28.37%
> 
> While on kernbench there was no significant change in the observation.
> 
> I will try patch V2 and let you know the results.

Great to see those improvements so far. Thank you for testing this.

Jason

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