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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "'Nick Piggin'" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:26:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050729112616.GA24965@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507282308.j6SN8Tg01993@unix-os.sc.intel.com>


* Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:

> To demonstrate the problem, we turned off these two flags in the cpu 
> sd domain and measured a stunning 2.15% performance gain!  And 
> deleting all the code in the try_to_wake_up() pertain to load 
> balancing gives us another 0.2% gain.

another thing: do you have a HT-capable ia64 CPU, and do you have 
CONFIG_SCHED_SMT turned on? If yes then could you try to turn off 
SD_WAKE_IDLE too, i found it to bring further performance improvements 
in certain workloads.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-29 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-28 23:08 Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-28 23:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-28 23:48   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29  1:25     ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  1:39       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29  1:46         ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  1:53           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29  2:01             ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  6:27               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29  8:48                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  8:53                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29  8:59                     ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-29  9:01                       ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29  9:07                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 16:40                   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 11:48                 ` [patch] remove wake-balancing Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 14:13                   ` [sched, patch] better wake-balancing Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 15:02                     ` [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #2 Ingo Molnar
2005-07-29 16:21                       ` [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #3 Ingo Molnar
2005-07-30  0:08                         ` Nick Piggin
2005-07-30  7:19                           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-07-31  1:15                             ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-01 17:13                               ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-08 23:18                             ` Chen, Kenneth W
2005-07-29 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-07-29 17:30   ` Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags Chen, Kenneth W

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