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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kernel@quicinc.com, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	Prakash Viswalingam <quic_prakashv@quicinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] freezer,sched: Use saved_state to reduce some spurious wakeups
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 00:08:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230908220804.GA29218@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c5b5a0b-6d78-878e-7e66-e08e83e6e1c8@quicinc.com>

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 01:08:07PM -0700, Elliot Berman wrote:

> > Perhaps we should start off by doing the below, instead of making it
> > more complicated instead. I suppose you're right about the overhead, but
> > run a hackbench just to make sure or something.
> > 
> 
> I ran perf bench sched message -g 40 -l 40 with the v3 patch [1]. After 60
> iterations each, I don't see a significant difference on my arm64 platform:
> both samples ~normal and ~eq variance w/t-test p-value: 0.79.
> 
> We also ran typical high level benchmarks for our SoCs (antutu,
> geekbench, et. al) and didn't see any regressions there.

So if you would've made this 2 patches, the first removing the ifdef,
then the changelog for that patch would be a good place to mention it
doesn't measurably regress things.

As a bonus, it then makes your other changes smaller too ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-08 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-30 17:42 [PATCH v2] freezer,sched: Use saved_state to reduce some spurious wakeups Elliot Berman
2023-09-04 21:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-05  3:59   ` Elliot Berman
2023-09-07  9:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-08 20:08       ` Elliot Berman
2023-09-08 22:08         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-09-08 22:30           ` Elliot Berman
2023-09-08 22:48             ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-08 23:17               ` Elliot Berman
2023-09-09  9:29                 ` Peter Zijlstra

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