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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc patch] sched/fair: Use instantaneous load for fork/exec balancing
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 18:03:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466006609.4219.40.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5761752A.6000606@arm.com>

On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 16:32 +0100, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:

> > In general, the fuzz helps us to not be so spastic.  I'm not sure that
> > we really really need to care all that much, because I strongly suspect
> > that it's only gonna make any difference at all in corner cases, but
> > there are real world cases that matter.  I know for fact that schbench
> > (facebook) which is at least based on a real world load fails early due
> > to us stacking tasks due to that fuzzy view of reality.  In that case,
> > it's because the fuzz consists of a high amplitude aging sawtooth..
> 
> ... only for fork/exec?

No.  Identical workers had longish work/sleep cycle, aging resulted in
weights that ranged from roughly 300-700(ish), depending on when you
peeked at them.

	-Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-14  7:58 [rfc patch] sched/fair: Use instantaneous load for fork/exec balancing Mike Galbraith
2016-06-14 14:14 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-06-14 16:40   ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-15 15:32     ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-06-15 16:03       ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2016-06-15 19:03         ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-06-16  3:33           ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-16  9:01             ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-07-04 15:04       ` Matt Fleming
2016-07-04 17:43         ` Mike Galbraith
2016-07-06 11:45           ` Matt Fleming
2016-07-06 12:21             ` Mike Galbraith
2016-07-11  8:58         ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-07-12 11:14           ` Matt Fleming
2016-06-14 22:42 ` Yuyang Du
2016-06-15  7:01   ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-16 11:46     ` [patch] sched/fair: Use instantaneous load in wakeup paths Mike Galbraith
2016-06-16 12:04       ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-16 12:41         ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-17  6:21           ` Mike Galbraith
2016-06-17 10:55             ` Dietmar Eggemann
2016-06-17 13:57               ` Mike Galbraith

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