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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] sched/numa: do load balance between remote nodes
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:53:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCF3694.206@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338965571-9812-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>

Hello.

On 06-06-2012 10:52, Alex Shi wrote:

> commit cb83b629b

    Please also specify that commit's summary in parens.

> remove the NODE sched domain and check if the node
> distance in SLIT table is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE, if so, it will
> lose the load balance chance at exec/fork/wake_affine points.

> But actually, even the node distance is farther than REMOTE_DISTANCE,
> Modern CPUs also has QPI like connections, that make memory access is

    "Is" not needed here.

> not too slow between nodes.  So above losing on NUMA machine make a
> huge performance regression on benchmark: hackbench, tbench, netperf
> and oltp etc.

> This patch will recover the scheduler behavior to old mode on all my
> Intel platforms: NHM EP/EX, WSM EP, SNB EP/EP4S, and so remove the
> perfromance regressions. (all of them just has 2 kinds distance, 10 21)

> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi<alex.shi@intel.com>

WBR, Sergei

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 10:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06  6:52 [RFC PATCH] sched/numa: do load balance between remote nodes Alex Shi
2012-06-06  9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07  0:33   ` Alex Shi
2012-06-06 10:53 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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