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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul Turner" <pjt@google.com>, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>,
	"Morten Rasmussen" <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	"Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	"Preeti U Murthy" <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Viresh Kumar" <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de>, "Rik van Riel" <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Wang" <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Jason Low" <jason.low2@hp.com>,
	"Changlong Xie" <changlongx.xie@intel.com>,
	sgruszka@redhat.com, "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch v8 9/9] sched/tg: remove blocked_load_avg in balance
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:49:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C17EA4.3030401@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617140100.GZ3204@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 06/17/2013 10:01 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:20:46AM -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:
>>> > > blocked_load_avg sometime is too heavy and far bigger than runnable load
>>> > > avg, that make balance make wrong decision. So remove it.
>> > 
>> > Ok so this is  going to have terrible effects on the correctness of
>> > shares distribution; I'm fairly opposed to it in its present form.
> Should someone take a look at the LTP cgroup tests to make sure they
> cover this properly?

Seems I have no time on this in near future. :(

But I were you, I would picked up this patch, since
1, it is simple and easy revert.
2, it wins in testing.
3, it will motivate Paul to look into this problem. ;)

-- 
Thanks
    Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-07  7:20 [patch 0/9] sched: use runnable load avg in balance Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 1/9] Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 2/9] sched: move few runnable tg variables into CONFIG_SMP Alex Shi
2013-06-17 12:26   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 15:32     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 3/9] sched: set initial value of runnable avg for new forked task Alex Shi
2013-06-10  1:51   ` Gu Zheng
2013-06-14 10:02   ` Lei Wen
2013-06-14 13:59     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-15 12:09       ` Lei Wen
2013-06-17  0:33         ` Alex Shi
2013-06-20 10:23         ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-06-21  2:57           ` Lei Wen
2013-06-17  9:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17 12:26       ` Lei Wen
2013-06-17 12:33         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-14 11:09   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-14 14:16     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17  9:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17  9:39         ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 13:00           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17  9:57         ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 13:07           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17 13:23             ` Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 4/9] sched: fix slept time double counting in enqueue entity Alex Shi
2013-06-17 11:51   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 15:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-20  1:43       ` Lei Wen
2013-06-20  1:46         ` Alex Shi
2013-06-20  2:46         ` Lei Wen
2013-06-20 14:59           ` Alex Shi
2013-06-21  2:30             ` Lei Wen
2013-06-21  2:39               ` Alex Shi
2013-06-21  2:50                 ` Lei Wen
2013-06-21  8:56                   ` Alex Shi
2013-06-21  9:18                     ` Lei Wen
2013-06-21 11:09                       ` Alex Shi
2013-06-21 13:26                         ` Lei Wen
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 5/9] sched: update cpu load after task_tick Alex Shi
2013-06-17 11:54   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 6/9] sched: compute runnable load avg in cpu_load and cpu_avg_load_per_task Alex Shi
2013-06-10  1:49   ` Gu Zheng
2013-06-10  2:01     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-10  2:05       ` Gu Zheng
2013-06-17 10:51   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 12:17     ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 13:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17 13:59         ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 13:57       ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 23:00         ` Paul Turner
2013-06-18  3:44           ` Alex Shi
2013-06-18  9:44             ` Alex Shi
2013-06-19  8:15               ` Alex Shi
2013-06-20  0:33                 ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 14:57     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 15:21       ` Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 7/9] math64: add div64_ul macro Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 8/9] sched: consider runnable load average in move_tasks Alex Shi
2013-06-17 10:58   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 14:01     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 14:15       ` Alex Shi
2013-06-17 13:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17 14:29     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-07  7:20 ` [patch v8 9/9] sched/tg: remove blocked_load_avg in balance Alex Shi
2013-06-17  9:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-17 12:20   ` Paul Turner
2013-06-17 14:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-19  9:49       ` Alex Shi [this message]
2013-06-20  1:33     ` Alex Shi
2013-06-08  2:37 ` [patch 0/9] sched: use runnable load avg " Alex Shi
2013-06-10  1:35 ` Alex Shi
2013-06-10 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-11  3:30   ` Alex Shi

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