From: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap()
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 18:21:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200506222127.l3p2a2vjavwz2bdl@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UdE1ex_aAyMeR3PWtVcmXL8cUtjqy0J8hLpnFm42yn82w@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 07:55:43AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> One question about this data. What is the power management
> configuration on the systems when you are running these tests? I'm
> just curious if CPU frequency scaling, C states, and turbo are
> enabled?
Yes, intel_pstate is loaded in active mode without hwp and with turbo enabled
(those power management docs are great by the way!) and intel_idle is in use
too.
> I ask because that is what I have seen usually make the
> difference in these kind of workloads as the throughput starts
> dropping off as you start seeing the core frequency lower and more
> cores become active.
If I follow, you're saying there's a chance performance would improve with the
above disabled, but how often would a system be configured that way? Even if
it were faster, the machine is configured how it's configured, or am I missing
your point?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 20:11 [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/7] padata: remove exit routine Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/7] padata: initialize earlier Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/7] padata: allocate work structures for parallel jobs from a pool Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] padata: add basic support for multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: move zone iterator outside of deferred_init_maxorder() Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-01 2:45 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:10 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05 0:54 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 15:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:39 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 15:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 20:20 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 21:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 22:15 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap() Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:33 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-04 23:38 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-05 0:40 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05 1:48 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 2:09 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 14:55 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:21 ` Daniel Jordan [this message]
2020-05-06 22:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:43 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-06 23:01 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 1:26 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 7/7] padata: document multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Andrew Morton
2020-04-30 21:40 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-01 2:40 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-01 0:50 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01 1:09 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01 2:48 ` Daniel Jordan
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