From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@inria.fr>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
viresh.kumar@linaro.org, srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: check for idle core
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:42:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2010211422230.8475@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201021121950.GF2628@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 01:56:55PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Prior to 5.8, my machine was using intel_pstate and had few background
> > tasks. Thus the problem wasn't visible in practice. Starting with 5.8
> > the kernel decided that intel_cpufreq would be more appropriate, which
> > introduced kworkers every 0.004 seconds on all cores.
>
> That still doesn't make any sense. Are you running the legacy on-demand
> thing or something?
>
> Rafael, Srinivas, Viresh, how come it defaults to that?
The relevant commits are 33aa46f252c7, and 39a188b88332 that fixes a small
bug. I have a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8870 v4 @ 2.10GHz that does not
have the HWP feature, even though the cores seemed to be able to change
their frequencies at the hardware level.
julia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-21 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-20 16:37 [PATCH] sched/fair: check for idle core Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 7:29 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-21 11:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 12:27 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-21 11:20 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 11:56 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 12:42 ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2020-10-21 12:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 18:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-21 18:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-21 19:47 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 20:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-21 13:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-21 18:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-22 4:53 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-22 7:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 10:59 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-22 11:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-22 12:02 ` default cpufreq gov, was: " Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 12:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-22 12:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 14:52 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-22 14:58 ` Colin Ian King
2020-10-22 15:12 ` Phil Auld
2020-10-22 16:35 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-22 17:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-22 20:32 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-22 20:39 ` Phil Auld
2020-10-22 15:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-22 15:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-22 16:29 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-22 20:10 ` Giovanni Gherdovich
2020-10-22 20:16 ` Giovanni Gherdovich
2020-10-23 7:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-10-23 17:46 ` Tom Lendacky
2020-10-26 19:52 ` Fontenot, Nathan
2020-10-22 15:45 ` A L
2020-10-22 15:55 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-23 5:23 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-22 16:23 ` [PATCH] cpufreq: Avoid configuring old governors as default with intel_pstate Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-23 6:29 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-23 11:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-23 15:15 ` [PATCH v2] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-27 3:13 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-27 11:11 ` default cpufreq gov, was: [PATCH] sched/fair: check for idle core Qais Yousef
2020-10-27 11:26 ` Valentin Schneider
2020-10-27 11:42 ` Qais Yousef
2020-10-27 11:48 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-23 6:24 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-23 15:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-10-27 3:13 ` Viresh Kumar
2020-10-22 11:21 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-10-21 12:28 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 12:25 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-21 12:47 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 12:56 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 13:18 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 13:24 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 15:08 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 15:18 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 15:23 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-21 15:33 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 15:19 ` Vincent Guittot
2020-10-21 17:00 ` Mel Gorman
2020-10-21 17:39 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 13:48 ` Julia Lawall
2020-10-21 15:26 ` Mel Gorman
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