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From: "Alex,Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com> To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 - v1 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:05:53 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1297991153.14712.636.camel@debian> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1297473616.2806.16.camel@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com> > I am also ok with removing this code. But as Venki mentioned earlier > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129735866732171&w=2), we need to > make sure idle core gets priority instead of an idle smt-thread on a > busy core while pulling the load from the busiest socket. > > I requested Venki to post these 2 patches of removing the propagation of > busy sibling status to an idle sibling and prioritizing the idle core > while pulling the load. I will request Alex and Tim to run their > performance workloads to make sure that this doesn't show any > regressions. I have got sd_idle deletion and other patches. So just tested this v1 patch based on 38-rc4 kernel on WSM-EP NHM-EP, and Core2 machine, didn't find clear performance regression or improvement, include on hackbench/specjbb/volano etc. > > thanks, > suresh >
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 1:26 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-02-04 20:51 [PATCH] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-04 21:25 ` [PATCH] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 - v1 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-07 13:50 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-07 18:21 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-07 19:53 ` Suresh Siddha 2011-02-08 17:37 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-08 18:13 ` Misc sd_idle related fixes Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-09 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-10 17:24 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-08 18:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-08 18:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: fix_up broken SMT load balance dilation Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-08 18:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: newidle balance set idle_timestamp only on successful pull Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-09 3:37 ` Mike Galbraith 2011-02-09 15:55 ` [PATCH] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 - v1 Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-12 1:20 ` Suresh Siddha 2011-02-14 22:38 ` [PATCH] sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-15 17:01 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 2011-02-15 18:26 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-16 8:53 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 2011-02-16 11:43 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-16 13:50 ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Venkatesh Pallipadi 2011-02-15 9:15 ` [PATCH] sched: Resolve sd_idle and first_idle_cpu Catch-22 - v1 Peter Zijlstra 2011-02-15 19:11 ` Suresh Siddha 2011-02-18 1:05 ` Alex,Shi [this message]
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