Re: [LKP] Re: [sched] bdfcae1140: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -37.0% regression

[Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>]

On 10/22/2020 9:19 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Oct 21, 2020, at 9:54 PM, Xing Zhengjun zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com wrote:
> [...]
>> In fact, 0-day just copy the will-it-scale benchmark from the GitHub, if
>> you think the will-it-scale benchmark has some issues, you can
>> contribute your idea and help to improve it, later we will update the
>> will-it-scale benchmark to the new version.
> 
> This is why I CC'd the maintainer of the will-it-scale github project, Anton Blanchard.
> My main intent is to report this issue to him, but I have not heard back from him yet.
> Is this project maintained ? Let me try to add his ozlabs.org address in CC.
> 
>> For this test case, if we bind the workload to a specific CPU, then it
>> will hide the scheduler balance issue. In the real world, we seldom bind
>> the CPU...
> 
> When you say that you bind the workload to a specific CPU, is that done
> outside of the will-it-scale testsuite, thus limiting the entire testsuite
> to a single CPU, or you expect that internally the will-it-scale context-switch1
> test gets affined to a single specific CPU/core/hardware thread through use of
> hwloc ?
> 
The later one.

> Thanks,
> 
> Mathieu
> 

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Zhengjun Xing