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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>,
	Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Couple wakee flips with heavy wakers
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:00:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211027090020.GO3959@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93033bdc35fb2ddd374700b76324de88639ef5ae.camel@gmx.de>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 04:09:12AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 14:13 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2021-10-26 at 12:57 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > 
> > > The patch in question was also tested on other workloads on NUMA
> > > machines. For a 2-socket machine (20 cores, HT enabled so 40 CPUs)
> > > running specjbb 2005 with one JVM per NUMA node, the patch also
> > > scaled
> > > reasonably well
> > 
> > That's way more more interesting.  No idea what this thing does under
> > the hood thus whether it should be helped or not, but at least it's a
> > real deal benchmark vs a kernel hacker tool.
> 
> ...
> Installing test specjbb
> specjvm-install: Fetching from mirror
> http://mcp/mmtests-mirror/spec/SPECjbb2005_kitv1.07.tar.gz
> specjvm-install: Fetching from internet
> NOT_AVAILABLE/SPECjbb2005_kitv1.07.tar.gz
> specjvm-install: Fetching from alt internet
> /SPECjbb2005_kitv1.07.tar.gz
> FATAL specjvm-install: specjvm-install: Could not download
> /SPECjbb2005_kitv1.07.tar.gz
> FATAL specjbb-bench: specjbb install script returned error
> FATAL: specjbb returned failure, unable to continue
> FATAL: Installation step failed for specjbb
> 
> Hohum, so much for trying to take a peek.
> 

The benchmark is not available for free unfortunately.

> At any rate, unlike the tbench numbers, these have the look of signal
> rather than test jig noise, and pretty strong signal at that, so maybe
> patchlet should fly. At the very least, it appears to be saying that
> there is significant performance to be had by some means.
> 
> Bah, fly or die little patchlet.  Either way there will be winners and
> losers, that's just the way it works if you're not shaving cycles.
> 

So, I assume you are ok for patch 1 to take flight to either live or
die. I'll handle any bugs that show up in relation to it. How about
patch 2?

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-27  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21 14:56 [PATCH 0/2] Reduce stacking and overscheduling Mel Gorman
2021-10-21 14:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Couple wakee flips with heavy wakers Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 10:26   ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-22 11:05     ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-22 12:00       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-25  6:35       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-26  8:18         ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-26 10:15           ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-26 10:41             ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-26 11:57               ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-26 12:13                 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-27  2:09                   ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-27  9:00                     ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2021-10-27 10:18                       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-11-09 11:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-11-09 12:55     ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-21 14:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Increase wakeup_gran if current task has not executed the minimum granularity Mel Gorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-10-28  9:48 [PATCH v4 0/2] Reduce stacking and overscheduling Mel Gorman
2021-10-28  9:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Couple wakee flips with heavy wakers Mel Gorman
2021-10-28 16:19   ` Tao Zhou
2021-10-29  8:42     ` Mel Gorman
2021-11-10  9:53       ` Tao Zhou
2021-11-10 15:40         ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-29 15:17   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-10-30  3:11     ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-30  4:12       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-11-01  8:56     ` Mel Gorman

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