Re: [PATCH v1] sched/fair: update_pick_idlest() Select group with lowest group_util when idle_cpus are equal

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 02:33:56PM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 13:03, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:42:05AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > While it's possible that some other factor masked the impact of the patch,
> > > the fact it's neutral for two workloads in 5.10-rc2 is suspicious as it
> > > indicates that if the patch was implemented against 5.10-rc2, it would
> > > likely not have been merged. I've queued the tests on the remaining
> > > machines to see if something more conclusive falls out.
> > >
> >
> > It's not as conclusive as I would like. fork_test generally benefits
> > across the board but I do not put much weight in that.
> >
> > Otherwise, it's workload and machine-specific.
> >
> > schbench: (wakeup latency sensitive), all machines benefitted from the
> >         revert at the low utilisation except one 2-socket haswell machine
> >         which showed higher variability when the machine was fully
> >         utilised.
> 
> There is a pending patch to should improve this bench:
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1330614/
> 

Ok, I've slotted this one in with a bunch of other stuff I wanted to run
over the weekend. That particular patch was on my radar anyway. It just
got bumped up the schedule a little bit.

> > hackbench: Neutral except for the same 2-socket Haswell machine which
> >         took an 8% performance penalty of 8% for smaller number of groups
> >         and 4% for higher number of groups.
> >
> > pipetest: Mostly neutral except for the *same* machine showing an 18%
> >         performance gain by reverting.
> >
> > kernbench: Shows small gains at low job counts across the board -- 0.84%
> >         lowest gain up to 5.93% depending on the machine
> >
> > gitsource: low utilisation execution of the git test suite. This was
> >         mostly a win for the revert. For the list of machines tested it was
> >
> >          14.48% gain (2 socket but SNC enabled to 4 NUMA nodes)
> >         neutral      (2 socket broadwell)
> >         36.37% gain  (1 socket skylake machine)
> >          3.18% gain  (2 socket broadwell)
> >          4.4%        (2 socket EPYC 2)
> >          1.85% gain  (2 socket EPYC 1)
> >
> > While it was clear-cut for 5.9, it's less clear-cut for 5.10-rc2 although
> > the gitsource shows some severe differences depending on the machine that
> > is worth being extremely cautious about. I would still prefer a revert
> > but I'm also extremely biased and I know there are other patches in the
> 
> This one from Julia can also impact
> 

Which one? I'm guessing "[PATCH v2] sched/fair: check for idle core"

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Mel Gorman
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