Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/uclamp: Add a new sysctl to control RT default boost value

[Qais Yousef]

On 05/29/20 11:21, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 05:51:31PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> > > Indeed, that one. The fact that regular distros cannot enable this
> > > feature due to performance overhead is unfortunate. It means there is a
> > > lot less potential for this stuff.
> > 
> > I had a humble try to catch the overhead but wasn't successful. The observation
> > wasn't missed by us too then.
> > 
> 
> As with all things, it's perfectly possible I was looking at a workload
> where the cost is more obvious but given that the functions are inlined,
> it's not trivial to spot. I just happened to spot it because I was paying
> close attention to try_to_wake_up() at the time.

Indeed.

> 
> > On my Ubuntu 18.04 machine uclamp is enabled by default by the way. 5.3 kernel
> > though, so uclamp task group stuff not there yet. Should check how their server
> > distro looks like.
> > 
> 
> Elsewhere in the thread, I showed some results based on 5.7 so uclamp
> task group existed but I had it disabled. The uclamp related parts of
> the kconfig were
> 
> # zgrep UCLAMP kconfig-5.7.0-rc7-with-clamp.txt.gz
> CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK=y
> CONFIG_UCLAMP_BUCKETS_COUNT=5
> # CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP is not set

So you never had the TASK_GROUP part enabled when you noticed the regression?
Or is it the other way around, you just disabled CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK_GROUP to
'fix' it?

Thanks

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Qais Yousef