From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Tong Li <tong.n.li@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:01:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AC02FA.8060303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707281121580.22772@tongli.jf.intel.com>
Tong Li wrote:
> Without the global locking, the global synchronization here is simply
> ping-ponging a cache line once of while. This doesn't look expensive to
> me, but if it does after benchmarking, adjusting sysctl_base_round_slice
> can reduce the ping-pong frequency. There might also be a smart
> implementation that can alleviate this problem.
Scaling it proportionally to migration cost and log2(cpus) should suffice.
> I don't understand why quantizing CPU time is a bad thing. Could you
> educate me on this?
It depends on how precisely you do it. We save a lot of power going
tickless. If round expiration is re-introducing ticks on idle CPUs, we
could waste a lot of power. Hardware is getting even more aggressive
about power saving, to the point of allowing individual cores to be
completely powered off when idle. We need to make sure the scheduler
doesn't interfere with power management.
-- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-29 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-23 18:38 [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS Tong Li
2007-07-23 20:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 21:10 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-23 21:25 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 9:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 23:40 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 8:07 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 17:11 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-24 17:07 ` Tong Li
2007-07-24 18:08 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 19:47 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 20:39 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 20:58 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-24 21:09 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 21:23 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 21:45 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 23:33 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 21:06 ` Bill Huey
2007-07-24 21:22 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 23:14 ` Bill Huey
2007-07-24 21:12 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-25 11:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 12:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 17:23 ` Tong Li
2007-07-25 19:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 20:38 ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-25 20:55 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-25 21:15 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-25 22:24 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-26 19:00 ` Tong Li
2007-07-26 21:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 22:00 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-27 1:34 ` Tong Li
2007-07-27 17:16 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-27 19:03 ` Tong Li
2007-07-27 22:20 ` Bill Huey
2007-07-27 23:36 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 0:54 ` Bill Huey
2007-07-28 2:59 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 19:38 ` Tong Li
2007-07-29 2:40 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 19:23 ` Tong Li
2007-07-29 3:01 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2007-07-25 18:20 ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-25 19:18 ` Ingo Molnar
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