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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:35:24 +0530
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vs
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* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2011-09-13 10:33:06]:

> * Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2011-09-13 09:45:45]:
> 
> > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [2011-09-12 14:35:43]:
> > 
> > > Of course it does.. and I bet you can improve that slightly if you
> > > manage to fix some of the numerical nightmares that live in the cgroup
> > > load-balancer (Paul, care to share your WIP?)
> > 
> > Booting with "nohz=off" also helps significantly.
> > 
> > With nohz=on, average idle time (over 1 min) is 10.3%
> > With nohz=off, average idle time (over 1 min) is 3.9%
> 
> Tuning min_interval and max_interval of various sched_domains to 1 [a]

Forgot to add footnote (a) earlier. min and max_interval tuned as
below:

	# cd /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain
	# for i in `find . -name min_interval`; do echo 1 > $i; done
	# for i in `find . -name max_interval`; do echo 1 > $i; done

- vatsa