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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, pjt@google.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	viresh.kumar@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:17:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1359350266.5783.39.camel@marge.simpson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359301903.5805.11.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 16:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:25 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: 
> > On 01/27/2013 06:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:36:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > >> With aim7 compute on 4 node 40 core box, I see stable throughput
> > >> improvement at tasks = nr_cores and below w. balance and powersaving. 
> ... 
> > > Ok, this is sick. How is balance and powersaving better than perf? Both
> > > have much more jobs per minute than perf; is that because we do pack
> > > much more tasks per cpu with balance and powersaving?
> > 
> > Maybe it is due to the lazy balancing on balance/powersaving. You can
> > check the CS times in /proc/pid/status.
> 
> Well, it's not wakeup path, limiting entry frequency per waker did zip
> squat nada to any policy throughput.

monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# echo powersaving > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_policy/current_sched_policy
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# massive_intr 10 60
043321  00058616
043313  00058616
043318  00058968
043317  00058968
043316  00059184
043319  00059192
043320  00059048
043314  00059048
043312  00058176
043315  00058184
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# echo balance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_policy/current_sched_policy
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# massive_intr 10 60
043337  00053448
043333  00053456
043338  00052992
043331  00053448
043332  00053488
043335  00053496
043334  00053480
043329  00053288
043336  00053464
043330  00053496
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_policy/current_sched_policy
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]# massive_intr 10 60
043348  00052488
043344  00052488
043349  00052744
043343  00052504
043347  00052504
043352  00052888
043345  00052504
043351  00052496
043346  00052496
043350  00052304
monteverdi:/abuild/mike/:[0]#

Zzzt.  Wish I could turn turbo thingy off.

-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  3:06 [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 01/18] sched: set SD_PREFER_SIBLING on MC domain to reduce a domain level Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 13:22     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 12:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-16  5:16         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 14:17     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 02/18] sched: select_task_rq_fair clean up Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 14:44     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 03/18] sched: fix find_idlest_group mess logical Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:07     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 04/18] sched: don't need go to smaller sched domain Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 05/18] sched: quicker balancing on fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:13     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-14  8:12     ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-14 14:08       ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 13:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 06/18] sched: give initial value for runnable avg of sched entities Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 07/18] sched: set initial load avg of new forked task Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:14     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:41       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14 13:07         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-19 11:34           ` Paul Turner
2013-02-20  4:18             ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-20  5:13             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 08/18] Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:23     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:45       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14  3:07         ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 09/18] sched: add sched_policies in kernel Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 10/18] sched: add sysfs interface for sched_policy selection Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 11/18] sched: log the cpu utilization at rq Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:10     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 12/18] sched: add power aware scheduling in fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 13/18] sched: packing small tasks in wake/exec balancing Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 14/18] sched: add power/performance balance allowed flag Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 15/18] sched: pull all tasks from source group Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 16/18] sched: don't care if the local group has capacity Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 17/18] sched: power aware load balance, Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:07 ` [patch v4 18/18] sched: lazy power balance Alex Shi
2013-01-24  9:44 ` [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling Borislav Petkov
2013-01-24 15:07   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  2:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  4:36       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-27 10:35         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-27 13:25           ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27 15:51             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  5:17               ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2013-01-28  5:51                 ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:15                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  6:42                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:20                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:17                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  9:55                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 10:44                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:29                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 11:32                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:40                         ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 15:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 15:55                             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:38                               ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:32                         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:36                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28 15:47                 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:45                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  4:03                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  2:27                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27 10:40       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-27 14:03         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  5:19         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:49           ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:17             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  7:33               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  6:02           ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  1:28 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04  1:35 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04 11:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-05  2:26     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-06  5:08       ` Alex Shi

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