Re: [tip: sched/core] sched/eevdf: Curb wakeup-preemption

[K Prateek Nayak]

Hello Mike,

On 8/21/2023 9:00 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-08-21 at 16:09 +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> Sorry for being late to the party but couple of benchmarks are unhappy
>> (very!) with eevdf, even with this optimization. I'll leave the results
>> of testing on a dual socket 3rd Generation EPYC System (2 x 64C/128T)
>> running in NPS1 mode below.
>>
>> tl;dr
>>
>> - Hackbench with medium load, tbench when overloaded, and DeathStarBench
>>   are not a fan of EEVDF so far :(
> 
> FWIW, there are more tbench shards lying behind EEVDF than in front.
> 
> tbench 8 on old i7-4790 box
> 4.4.302      4024
> 6.4.11       3668
> 6.4.11-eevdf 3522
> 

I agree, but on servers, tbench has been useful to identify a variety of
issues [1][2][3] and I believe it is better to pick some shards up than
leave them lying around for others to step on :)

Casting aside tbench, there are still more workloads that have
regression and it'll be good to understand which property of those don't
sit well with EEVDF.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c50bdbfe-02ce-c1bc-c761-c95f8e216ca0@xxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220921063638.2489-1-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/80956e8f-761e-b74-1c7a-3966f9e8d934@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

> I went a-hunting once, but it didn't go well.  There were a couple
> identifiable sched related dips/recoveries, but the overall result was
> a useless downward trending mess.
> 
> 	-Mike

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Thanks and Regards,
Prateek