Re: [PATCH] sched: wake-affine throttle

[Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 05/03/2013 02:14 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 13:57 +0800, Michael Wang wrote: 
>> Hi, Mike
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> On 05/03/2013 01:01 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> If this approach caused any concerns, please let me know ;-)
>>>
>>> I wonder if throttling on failure is the way to go.  Note the minimal
>>> gain for pgbench with the default 1ms throttle interval.  It's not very
>>> effective out of the box for the load type it's targeted to help, and
>>> people generally don't twiddle scheduler knobs.  If you throttle on
>>> success, you directly restrict migration frequency without that being
>>> affected by what other tasks are doing.  Seems that would be a bit more
>>> effective.
>>
>> This is a good timing to make some conclusion for this problem ;-)
>>
>> Let's suppose when wake-affine failed, next time slice got a higher
>> failure chance, then whether throttle on failure could be the question like:
>>
>> 	throttle interval should cover more failure timing
>> 	or more success timing?
>>
>> Obviously we should cover more failure timing, since it's just wasting
>> cycle and change nothing.
>>
>> However, I used to concern about the damage of succeed wake-affine at
>> that rapid, sure it also contain the benefit, but which one is bigger?
>>
>> Now if we look at the RFC version which throttle on succeed, for
>> pgbench, we could find that the default 1ms benefit is < 5%, while the
>> current version which throttle on failure bring 7% at most.
> 
> OK, so scratch that thought.  Would still be good to find a dirt simple
> dirt cheap way to increase effectiveness a bit, and eliminate the knob.
> Until a better idea comes along, this helps pgbench some, and will also
> help fast movers ala tbench on AMD, where select_idle_sibling() wasn't
> particularly wonderful per my measurements.

Yep, another advantage of this approach is simple, when later we figure
out the better idea, it could be easily replaced, for now, I would
prefer to use it as an urgent rescue for the 'suffered workload' ;-)

Regards,
Michael Wang


> 
> -Mike
> 
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