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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>,
	"Ravi V . Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>,
	Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch v3 4/6] sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:16:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dbc278117107bcc4047dc55f783dad397da1704.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29f8bc23-9b17-0a21-baa5-3eee1322f8f0@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, 2023-07-14 at 18:32 +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Tried on a symmetric system with all cores having SMT=4 as well. There was reduction in migrations here as well.
> Didnt observe any major regressions when microbenchmarks run alone. Such as hackbench, stress-ng. 
> 
> So. Here is tested-by. 
> Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for testing.  

> 
> 
> > +
> >  	/* Are we the first CPU of this group ? */
> >  	return group_balance_cpu(sg) == env->dst_cpu;
> >  }
> 
> One doubt though, Here a fully idle core would be chosen instead of first idle cpu in the 
> group (if there is one). Since coming out of idle of SMT is faster compared to a fully idle core,
> would latency increase? Or that concerns mainly wakeup path?

Yeah, I think that concern is for the wakeup path and not for the balance path.

Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-14 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-07 22:56 [Patch v3 0/6] Enable Cluster Scheduling for x86 Hybrid CPUs Tim Chen
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 1/6] sched/fair: Determine active load balance for SMT sched groups Tim Chen
2023-07-14 13:06   ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-14 23:05     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-15 18:25       ` Tim Chen
2023-07-16 19:36       ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-17 11:10         ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-17 12:18           ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-17 13:37             ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-17 14:58               ` [PATCH] sched/fair: Add SMT4 group_smt_balance handling Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-27  3:11                 ` Tim Chen
2023-07-27 13:32                   ` Tim Chen
2023-08-07  9:36                     ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-08-21 19:19                       ` Tim Chen
2023-09-05  8:03                         ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-09-05  9:49                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-05 18:37                           ` Tim Chen
2023-09-06  9:29                             ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-09-06 15:42                               ` Tim Chen
2023-09-07  8:58                             ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-09-07 17:42                               ` Tim Chen
2023-09-12 10:29                                 ` [tip: sched/urgent] sched/fair: Fix " tip-bot2 for Tim Chen
2023-09-13 13:11                                 ` tip-bot2 for Tim Chen
2023-09-05 10:38                         ` [PATCH] sched/fair: Add " Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-05 10:41                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-05 17:54                       ` Tim Chen
2023-09-06  8:23                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-09-06 15:45                           ` Tim Chen
2023-07-18  6:07       ` [Patch v3 1/6] sched/fair: Determine active load balance for SMT sched groups Tobias Huschle
2023-07-18 14:52         ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-19  8:14           ` Tobias Huschle
2023-07-14 14:53   ` Tobias Huschle
2023-07-14 23:29     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 2/6] sched/topology: Record number of cores in sched group Tim Chen
2023-07-10 20:33   ` Valentin Schneider
2023-07-10 22:13     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-12  9:27       ` Valentin Schneider
2023-07-10 22:40   ` Tim Chen
2023-07-11 11:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-11 16:32       ` Tim Chen
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 3/6] sched/fair: Implement prefer sibling imbalance calculation between asymmetric groups Tim Chen
2023-07-14 13:14   ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-14 14:22     ` Tobias Huschle
2023-07-14 23:35       ` Tim Chen
2023-07-14 20:44     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-14 23:23       ` Tim Chen
2023-07-15  0:11     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 4/6] sched/fair: Consider the idle state of the whole core for load balance Tim Chen
2023-07-14 13:02   ` Shrikanth Hegde
2023-07-14 22:16     ` Tim Chen [this message]
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 5/6] sched/x86: Add cluster topology to hybrid CPU Tim Chen
2023-07-08 12:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-07-10 16:13     ` Tim Chen
2023-07-07 22:57 ` [Patch v3 6/6] sched/debug: Dump domains' sched group flags Tim Chen
2023-07-10 20:33   ` Valentin Schneider

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