Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance

[Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem]

On 02/02/2026 11:07, Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem wrote:
> On 02/02/2026 10:51, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > OK, that clarifies.
> >
> > How does the NI_RATE patch work for you?
> >
> >    https://lkml.kernel.org/ 
> > r/20260127151748.GA1079264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Sure I am going to apply this patch and report the results.
I have tested the patch proposed in [1] on top of v6.12.66 and 
unfortunately I haven't seen any improvement. I mainly compared the 
results between v6.12.66 & v6.12.66_revert_1b9c118fe318 which has the 
revert for 1b9c118fe318 ("sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance") and 
v6.12.66_proposed which is v6.12.66 + the patch proposed in [1]. I 
mainly focused on AMD based c7a.4xlarge which was highly impacted as 
previously discussed in this thread. The baseline is 
v6.12.66_revert_1b9c118fe318 as it showed the best performance among the 
other available kernel options.

Version           | Benchmark name   | SUT EC2 Instance| diff %
v6.12.66          | postgresql       | c7a.4xlarge     | -4.0%
v6.12.66          | nginx_lb         | c7a.4xlarge     | -5.0%
v6.12.66          | memcached        | c7a.4xlarge     | -11.0%
v6.12.66_proposed | postgresql       | c7a.4xlarge     | -4.0%
v6.12.66_proposed | nginx_lb         | c7a.4xlarge     | -5.0%
v6.12.66_proposed | memcached        | c7a.4xlarge     | -13.0%


Furthermore We have also seen around 10-20% randwrite fio performance 
regression on v6.18.5 only on AMD based VMs. We confirmed that this 
regression is caused by 1b9c118fe318 ("sched/fair: Proportional newidle 
balance"). We are currently testing if the patch proposed in [1] to see 
if it will help with this regression and will be sharing the results & 
reproduction steps and environment in the next update.


[1 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260127151748.GA1079264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx