From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:32:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151018043214.GA9092@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445114184-4022-2-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com>
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 04:36:24PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> The commonly accepted wisdom that scheduling work on the same cpu
> that handled interrupt i/o benefits from cache-locality is only
> true if the cpu is idle (since bound kworkers are often the highest
> vruntime and thus the lowest priority).
>
> Measurements of scheduling via the unbound queue show lowered
> worst-case latency responses of up to 5x over bound workqueue, without
> increase in average latency or throughput.
>
> pty i/o test measurements show >3x (!) reduced total running time; tests
> previously taking ~8s now complete in <2.5s.
Wow, nice job with this, that's unexpected.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-18 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-17 20:36 [PATCH 1/2] tty: Abstract tty buffer work Peter Hurley
2015-10-17 20:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers Peter Hurley
2015-10-18 4:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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