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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Subject: Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:29:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332750583.16159.79.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120322153205.GA28570@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 21:02 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Anyway, there are degradations as well, considering which I see
> several 
> possibilities:
> 
> 1. Do balance-on-wake for vcpu threads only.

Hell no ;-) we're not going to special case some threads over others.

> 2. Document tuning possibility to improve performance in virtualized
>    environment:
>         - Either via sched_domain flags (disable SD_WAKE_AFFINE 
>           at all levels and enable SD_BALANCE_WAKE at SMT/MC levels)

But domain flags are not exported -- except under SCHED_DEBUG and that
sysctl mess.. also SD_flags are not stable.

>         - Or via a new sched_feat(BALANCE_WAKE) tunable 

sched_feat() is not a stable ABI and shouldn't ever be used for anything
but debugging (hence it lives in debugfs and goes away if you disable
SCHED_DEBUG).


I would very much like more information on why things are a loss. Is it
really related to what cpu you pick, or is it the cost of doing the
balance thing?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-26  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1329764866.2293.376.camhel@twins>
2012-03-05 15:24 ` sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-03-06  9:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-06 10:03     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-03-22 15:32     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-03-23  6:38       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-03-26  8:29       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-03-26  8:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-26 17:35         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-03-26 18:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-27 13:56             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-15  9:46 Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-16  1:14 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-16  9:24   ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-16 18:37     ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-17  1:59       ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:38         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 15:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-17 16:38             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 17:36               ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:14                 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 14:41                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 15:03                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:25                       ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  0:06                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21  6:37                           ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  8:09                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-20 18:14                     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-20 18:15                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-20 19:07                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21  5:43                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21  8:32                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-21  9:21                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-21 10:37                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-21 14:58                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 10:49                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:19                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 12:18                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:20                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 11:26                           ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:32                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-23 16:17                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-02-23 11:21                         ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-25  6:54                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-02-25  8:30                             ` Mike Galbraith
2012-02-27 22:11                               ` Suresh Siddha
2012-02-28  5:05                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-11-17 19:08             ` Suresh Siddha
2011-11-18 15:12               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-11-18 15:26                 ` Mike Galbraith

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