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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 03:07:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449194876.3240.9.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56609956.3030201@hpe.com>

On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 14:34 -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 11:32 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > Is that with the box booted skew_tick=1?

> I haven't tried that kernel parameter. I will try it to see if it can 
> improve the situation. BTW, will there be other undesirable side effects 
> of using this other than the increased power consumption as said in the 
> kernel-parameters.txt file?

Not that are known.  I kinda doubt you'd notice the power, but you
should see a notable performance boost.  Who knows, with a big enough
farm of busy big boxen, it may save power by needing fewer of them.

	-Mike 


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-02 18:41 [PATCH v2 0/3] sched/fair: Reduce contention on tg's load_avg Waiman Long
2015-12-02 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats() Waiman Long
2015-12-02 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long
2015-12-02 20:02   ` bsegall
2015-12-03 19:26     ` Waiman Long
2015-12-03 19:41       ` bsegall
2015-12-03  4:32   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-12-03 19:34     ` Waiman Long
2015-12-04  2:07       ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2015-12-04 20:19         ` Waiman Long
2015-12-03 10:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 19:38     ` Waiman Long
2015-12-03 11:12   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 17:56     ` bsegall
2015-12-03 18:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-03 18:23         ` bsegall
2015-12-03 19:56     ` Waiman Long
2015-12-03 20:03       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-12-04 11:57   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Move the cache-hot 'load_avg' variable " tip-bot for Waiman Long
2015-12-02 18:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/fair: Disable tg load_avg update for root_task_group Waiman Long
2015-12-02 19:55   ` bsegall
2015-12-04 11:58   ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Disable the task group load_avg update for the root_task_group tip-bot for Waiman Long

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