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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, pjt@google.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	viresh.kumar@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:35:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130127103508.GB8894@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359261385.5803.46.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:36:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> With aim7 compute on 4 node 40 core box, I see stable throughput
> improvement at tasks = nr_cores and below w. balance and powersaving. 
> 
>          3.8.0-performance                                  3.8.0-balance                                      3.8.0-powersaving
> Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu   jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu   jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
>     1      432.86  100       432.8571     14.00      3.99     433.48  100       433.4764     13.98      3.97     433.17  100       433.1665     13.99      3.98
>     1      437.23  100       437.2294     13.86      3.85     436.60  100       436.5994     13.88      3.86     435.66  100       435.6578     13.91      3.90
>     1      434.10  100       434.0974     13.96      3.95     436.29  100       436.2851     13.89      3.89     436.29  100       436.2851     13.89      3.87
>     5     2400.95   99       480.1902     12.62     12.49    2554.81   98       510.9612     11.86      7.55    2487.68   98       497.5369     12.18      8.22
>     5     2341.58   99       468.3153     12.94     13.95    2578.72   99       515.7447     11.75      7.25    2527.11   99       505.4212     11.99      7.90
>     5     2350.66   99       470.1319     12.89     13.66    2600.86   99       520.1717     11.65      7.09    2508.28   98       501.6556     12.08      8.24
>    10     4291.78   99       429.1785     14.12     40.14    5334.51   99       533.4507     11.36     11.13    5183.92   98       518.3918     11.69     12.15
>    10     4334.76   99       433.4764     13.98     38.70    5311.13   99       531.1131     11.41     11.23    5215.15   99       521.5146     11.62     12.53
>    10     4273.62   99       427.3625     14.18     40.29    5287.96   99       528.7958     11.46     11.46    5144.31   98       514.4312     11.78     12.32
>    20     8487.39   94       424.3697     14.28     63.14   10594.41   99       529.7203     11.44     23.72   10575.92   99       528.7958     11.46     22.08
>    20     8387.54   97       419.3772     14.45     77.01   10575.92   98       528.7958     11.46     23.41   10520.83   99       526.0417     11.52     21.88
>    20     8713.16   95       435.6578     13.91     55.10   10659.63   99       532.9815     11.37     24.17   10539.13   99       526.9565     11.50     22.13
>    40    16786.70   99       419.6676     14.44    170.08   19469.88   98       486.7470     12.45     60.78   19967.05   98       499.1763     12.14     51.40
>    40    16728.78   99       418.2195     14.49    172.96   19627.53   98       490.6883     12.35     65.26   20386.88   98       509.6720     11.89     46.91
>    40    16763.49   99       419.0871     14.46    171.42   20033.06   98       500.8264     12.10     51.44   20682.59   98       517.0648     11.72     42.45

Ok, this is sick. How is balance and powersaving better than perf? Both
have much more jobs per minute than perf; is that because we do pack
much more tasks per cpu with balance and powersaving?

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-27 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  3:06 [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 01/18] sched: set SD_PREFER_SIBLING on MC domain to reduce a domain level Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 13:22     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 12:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-16  5:16         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 14:17     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 02/18] sched: select_task_rq_fair clean up Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 14:44     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 03/18] sched: fix find_idlest_group mess logical Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:07     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 04/18] sched: don't need go to smaller sched domain Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 05/18] sched: quicker balancing on fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:13     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-14  8:12     ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-14 14:08       ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 13:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 06/18] sched: give initial value for runnable avg of sched entities Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 07/18] sched: set initial load avg of new forked task Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:14     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:41       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14 13:07         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-19 11:34           ` Paul Turner
2013-02-20  4:18             ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-20  5:13             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 08/18] Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:23     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:45       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14  3:07         ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 09/18] sched: add sched_policies in kernel Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 10/18] sched: add sysfs interface for sched_policy selection Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 11/18] sched: log the cpu utilization at rq Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:10     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 12/18] sched: add power aware scheduling in fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 13/18] sched: packing small tasks in wake/exec balancing Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 14/18] sched: add power/performance balance allowed flag Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 15/18] sched: pull all tasks from source group Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 16/18] sched: don't care if the local group has capacity Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 17/18] sched: power aware load balance, Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:07 ` [patch v4 18/18] sched: lazy power balance Alex Shi
2013-01-24  9:44 ` [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling Borislav Petkov
2013-01-24 15:07   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  2:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  4:36       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-27 10:35         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-01-27 13:25           ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27 15:51             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  5:17               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  5:51                 ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:15                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  6:42                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:20                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:17                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  9:55                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 10:44                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:29                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 11:32                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:40                         ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 15:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 15:55                             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:38                               ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:32                         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:36                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28 15:47                 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:45                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  4:03                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  2:27                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27 10:40       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-27 14:03         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  5:19         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:49           ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:17             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  7:33               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  6:02           ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  1:28 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04  1:35 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04 11:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-05  2:26     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-06  5:08       ` Alex Shi

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