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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vs unpinnede
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:28:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316161720.10174.0.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E730568.2030107@google.com>

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 01:14 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> On 09/13/11 11:23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 23:31 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> >> * Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>  [2011-09-13 16:19:39]:
> >>
> >>>> Booting with "nohz=off" also helps significantly.
> >>>>
> >>>> With nohz=on, average idle time (over 1 min) is 10.3%
> >>>> With nohz=off, average idle time (over 1 min) is 3.9%
> 
> I think more compelling here is that it looks like nohz load-balance 
> needs more love.

Quite probable, although I do know we tend to go overboard in going into
nohz state too.

> > That's not what I said.. what I said is that the nohz code should also
> > use the idle time prognosis.. disabling the tick is a costly operation,
> > doing it only to have to undo it costs time, and will be accounted to
> > idle time, hence your improvement with nohz=off.
> >
> 
> Enabling Venki's CONFIG_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING=y would discount to provide 
> a definitive answer here yes?

Ah, yes, its all (soft)irq context anyway, no need to also account
systemcalls.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-16  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03  9:28 [patch 00/15] CFS Bandwidth Control V6 Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 01/15] sched: (fixlet) dont update shares twice on on_rq parent Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:14   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-10  8:32     ` Mike Galbraith
2011-05-11  7:55       ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  8:13         ` Paul Turner
2011-05-11  8:45           ` Mike Galbraith
2011-05-11  8:59             ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 02/15] sched: hierarchical task accounting for SCHED_OTHER Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:17   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 03/15] sched: introduce primitives to account for CFS bandwidth tracking Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:18   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 04/15] sched: validate CFS quota hierarchies Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:20   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:37     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-16  9:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16  9:43   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16 12:32     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-17 15:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18  7:16         ` Paul Turner
2011-05-18 11:57           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 05/15] sched: add a timer to handle CFS bandwidth refresh Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:21   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:27     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-16 10:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16 12:56     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 06/15] sched: accumulate per-cfs_rq cpu usage and charge against bandwidth Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:22   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:25     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-16 10:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16 12:59     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-17 15:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18  7:02         ` Paul Turner
2011-05-16 10:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 07/15] sched: expire invalid runtime Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:22   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-16 11:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16 11:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 08/15] sched: throttle cfs_rq entities which exceed their local runtime Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:23   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-16 15:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-16 16:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 09/15] sched: unthrottle cfs_rq(s) who ran out of quota at period refresh Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:24   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:24     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 10/15] sched: allow for positional tg_tree walks Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:24   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-17 13:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-18  7:18     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 11/15] sched: prevent interactions between throttled entities and load-balance Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:26   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:11     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 12/15] sched: migrate throttled tasks on HOTPLUG Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:27   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:10     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:28 ` [patch 13/15] sched: add exports tracking cfs bandwidth control statistics Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:27   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  7:56   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:09     ` Paul Turner
2011-05-03  9:29 ` [patch 14/15] sched: return unused runtime on voluntary sleep Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:28   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-03  9:29 ` [patch 15/15] sched: add documentation for bandwidth control Paul Turner
2011-05-10  7:29   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-05-11  9:09     ` Paul Turner
2011-06-07 15:45 ` CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vs unpinned Kamalesh Babulal
2011-06-08  3:09   ` Paul Turner
2011-06-08 10:46   ` Vladimir Davydov
2011-06-08 16:32     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-06-09  3:25       ` Paul Turner
2011-06-10 18:17         ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-06-14  0:00           ` Paul Turner
2011-06-15  5:37             ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-06-21 19:48               ` Paul Turner
2011-06-24 15:05                 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-09-07 11:00                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-07 14:54                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-07 15:20                 ` CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vs unpinnede Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-07 19:22                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-08 15:15                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-09 12:31                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-09 13:26                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-12 10:17                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-12 12:35                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13  4:15                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13  5:03                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13  5:05                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13  9:39                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 11:28                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 14:07                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 16:21                                       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 16:33                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 17:41                                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 16:36                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 17:54                                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 18:03                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 18:12                                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 18:07                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 18:19                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 18:28                                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 18:30                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 18:35                                                   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-15 17:55                                                     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-09-15 21:48                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-19 17:51                                                         ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-09-20  0:38                                                           ` Venki Pallipadi
2011-09-20 11:09                                                             ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-09-20 13:56                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 14:04                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-20 12:55                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-21 17:34                                                         ` Kamalesh Babulal
2011-09-13 14:19                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-13 18:01                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-13 18:23                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-16  8:14                                     ` Paul Turner
2011-09-16  8:28                                       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-19 16:35                                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-09-16  8:22                   ` Paul Turner
2011-06-14 10:16   ` CFS Bandwidth Control - Test results of cgroups tasks pinned vs unpinned Hidetoshi Seto
2011-06-14  6:58 ` [patch 00/15] CFS Bandwidth Control V6 Hu Tao
2011-06-14  7:29   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-06-14  7:44     ` Hu Tao
2011-06-15  8:37     ` Hu Tao
2011-06-16  0:57       ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-06-16  9:45         ` Hu Tao
2011-06-17  1:22           ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-06-17  6:05             ` Hu Tao
2011-06-17  6:25             ` Paul Turner
2011-06-17  9:13               ` Hidetoshi Seto
2011-06-18  0:28                 ` Paul Turner

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