Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 06:54:00 EST


On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:45:55AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The results can be less dramatic on NUMA where automatic balancing interferes
> with the test. It's also known that network benchmarks running on localhost
> also benefit quite a bit from this patch (roughly 10% on netperf RR for UDP
> and TCP depending on the machine). Hackbench also seens small improvements
> (6-11% depending on machine and thread count). The facebook schbench was also
> tested but in most cases showed little or no different to wakeup latencies.

What cpufreq setting were you using for these tests?