From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933049AbcLMNk5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:40:57 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:55097 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932564AbcLMNkz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:40:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:40:54 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alexandre-Xavier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Labont=E9-Lamoureux?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Scheduler patches: 6x performance increase when system is under heavy load Message-ID: <20161213134054.GU3207@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 04:41:51PM -0500, Alexandre-Xavier Labonté-Lamoureux wrote: > > Here are my results (using "time make -j32" on my VM that has 4 cores): > > Kernel 4.8.14 > real 26m56.151s > user 79m52.472s > sys 7m42.964s > > Same kernel, but patched: > real 4m25.238s > user 13m52.932s > sys 1m25.820s > > I hope you guys will look into this. Which of the 4 patches does this? Also, what hypervisor are you using and what does the output of booting with "sched_debug" look like? Lastly, can you reproduce on real hardware?