From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
caglar@pardus.org.tr, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:42:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424174226.GE5475@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704241039110.8341@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:39:48AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
>
> > > Last I checked it was workload-dependent, but there were things that
> > > hammer it. I mostly know of the remote wakeup issue, but there could
> > > be other things besides wakeups that do it, too.
> >
> > remote wakeup was the main issue and the 0.5% improvement was seen
> > on a two node platform. Aligning it reduces the number of remote
> > cachelines that needs to be touched as part of this wakeup.
>
> .5% is usually in the noise ratio. Are you consistently seeing an
> improvement or is that sporadic?
No. This is consistent. I am waiting for the perf data on a much much bigger
NUMA box.
Anyhow, this is a straight forward optimization and needs to be done. Do you
have any specific concerns?
thanks,
suresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-24 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-18 17:50 [patch] CFS scheduler, v3 Ingo Molnar
2007-04-18 21:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-18 21:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-20 19:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 19:26 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-04-20 19:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 19:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 19:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 19:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-20 20:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-20 20:11 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-04-24 17:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-24 17:42 ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2007-04-24 17:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-24 17:50 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-04-24 17:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-24 18:06 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-04-20 0:10 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 4:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-20 6:02 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 6:21 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 7:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-04-20 6:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-20 7:32 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 12:28 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-21 8:07 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 13:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-21 0:23 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-21 5:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-21 5:38 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-21 7:32 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-21 7:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-21 8:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-21 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-21 16:23 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-21 10:37 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-21 12:21 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 14:21 ` Peter Williams
2007-04-20 14:33 ` Ingo Molnar
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