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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: subhra mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	dhaval.giani@oracle.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH V3] sched: Improve scalability of select_idle_sibling using SMT balance
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180205170358.GT2295@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180205124854.GX2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:48:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So while I see the point of tracking these numbers (for SMT>2), I don't
> think its worth doing outside of the core, and then we still need some
> powerpc (or any other architecture with abysmal atomics) tested.

FWIW Power has another 'fun' feature, their cores have asymmetric SMT.

Their cores have a static power level, based on _which_ SMT sibling is
running, not how many. A single SMT2 runs (much) slower than a single
SMT0.

So that random selection stuff really doesn't work well for them. Now
'sadly' x86 can also have ASYM_PACKING set on its SMT domain, so I'm
going to have to figure out what to do about all that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-29 23:31 [RESEND RFC PATCH V3] sched: Improve scalability of select_idle_sibling using SMT balance subhra mazumdar
2018-02-01 12:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-01 13:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 16:53   ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-02 17:17     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 17:36       ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-02 19:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 20:51           ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-02 17:37       ` Subhra Mazumdar
2018-02-05 12:19         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-05 22:09           ` Subhra Mazumdar
2018-02-06  9:12             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07  0:30               ` Subhra Mazumdar
2018-02-07  8:42                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-07 23:10                   ` Subhra Mazumdar
2018-02-02 17:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 17:39       ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-02 18:34         ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-02 20:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 21:17             ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-03  3:47           ` Mike Galbraith
2018-02-02 19:59     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 21:06       ` Steven Sistare
2018-02-05 12:48         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-05 13:54           ` Mike Galbraith
2018-02-05 17:03           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-02-05 22:32             ` Subhra Mazumdar

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