Re: [REGRESSION] sched/fair: Add lag based placement

[Phil Auld]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 01:03:00PM -0500 Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
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> During performance testing, we found a regression of ~9% performance with
> the TPCC benchmark.   This performance regression was introduced in
> v6.6-rc1.  After a bisect, the following commit was identified as the cause
> of the regression:
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> 86bfbb7ce4f6 ("sched/fair: Add lag based placement")
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> I was hoping to get some feedback from the scheduler folks.  Do you think
> gathering any additional data will help diagnose this issue?  Are there any
> tunable options that can changed to see how performance is affected?
> 

You can try turning off the PLACE_LAG sched feature:

    echo NO_PLACE_LAG > /sys/kernel/debug/sched/features

It's not what I'd call a tunable but it would allow you to test w/o it and
see what it does.  It should allow you to switch back and forth easily for
testing. 


Cheers,
Phil

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