Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] sched: select_idle_siblings rewrite

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:51:20AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:48:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Hai,
> > 
> > here be a semi coherent patch series for the recent select_idle_siblings()
> > tinkering. Happy benchmarking..
> 
> This took a while, mostly because my original schbench showed your
> patches were just as fast as our internal patch, but our production
> benchmark showed a 5-10% regression.  My theory was just that schbench
> wasn't fine grained enough, and the load would stop before the
> regression kicked in.

Just to be sure; regression as per your production kernel, not vs.
mainline, right?