From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
peterz@infradead.org, pauld@redhat.com,
valentin.schneider@arm.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
quentin.perret@arm.com, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com,
Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com, hdanton@sina.com, parth@linux.ibm.com,
riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] sched/fair: rework load_balance
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:51:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191118145134.GA3016@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191118135017.GA123637@gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 02:50:17PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
>
> > s/groupe_type/group_type/
> >
> > > enum group_type {
> > > - group_other = 0,
> > > + group_has_spare = 0,
> > > + group_fully_busy,
> > > group_misfit_task,
> > > + group_asym_packing,
> > > group_imbalanced,
> > > - group_overloaded,
> > > + group_overloaded
> > > +};
> > > +
> >
> > While not your fault, it would be nice to comment on the meaning of each
> > group type. From a glance, it's not obvious to me why a misfit task should
> > be a high priority to move a task than a fully_busy (but not overloaded)
> > group given that moving the misfit task might make a group overloaded.
>
> This part of your feedback should now be addressed in the scheduler tree
> via:
>
> a9723389cc75: sched/fair: Add comments for group_type and balancing at SD_NUMA level
>
While I can't see that commit ID yet, the discussed version of the patch
was fine by me.
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-18 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 13:26 [PATCH v4 00/10] sched/fair: rework the CFS load balance Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] sched/fair: clean up asym packing Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Clean " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 14:51 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] sched/fair: clean " Mel Gorman
2019-10-30 16:03 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] sched/fair: rename sum_nr_running to sum_h_nr_running Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Rename sg_lb_stats::sum_nr_running " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 14:53 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] sched/fair: rename sum_nr_running " Mel Gorman
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] sched/fair: remove meaningless imbalance calculation Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Remove " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] sched/fair: rework load_balance Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Rework load_balance() tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 15:45 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] sched/fair: rework load_balance Mel Gorman
2019-10-30 16:16 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-10-31 9:09 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-31 10:15 ` Mel Gorman
2019-10-31 11:13 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-31 11:40 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-08 16:35 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-08 18:37 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-12 10:58 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-12 15:06 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-12 15:40 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-12 17:45 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-18 13:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-18 13:57 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-18 14:51 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] sched/fair: use rq->nr_running when balancing load Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Use " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 15:54 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] sched/fair: use " Mel Gorman
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] sched/fair: use load instead of runnable load in load_balance Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in load_balance() tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 15:58 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] sched/fair: use load instead of runnable load in load_balance Mel Gorman
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] sched/fair: evenly spread tasks when not overloaded Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Spread out tasks evenly " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 16:03 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] sched/fair: evenly spread tasks " Mel Gorman
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] sched/fair: use utilization to select misfit task Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Use " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] sched/fair: use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Use " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] sched/fair: optimize find_idlest_group Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Optimize find_idlest_group() tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-18 13:26 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] sched/fair: rework find_idlest_group Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 9:12 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Rework find_idlest_group() tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-10-22 16:46 ` [PATCH] sched/fair: fix rework of find_idlest_group() Vincent Guittot
2019-10-23 7:50 ` Chen, Rong A
2019-10-30 16:07 ` Mel Gorman
2019-11-18 17:42 ` [tip: sched/core] sched/fair: Fix " tip-bot2 for Vincent Guittot
2019-11-22 14:37 ` [PATCH] sched/fair: fix " Valentin Schneider
2019-11-25 9:16 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-25 11:03 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-11-20 11:58 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] sched/fair: rework find_idlest_group Qais Yousef
2019-11-20 13:21 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-20 16:53 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-20 17:34 ` Qais Yousef
2019-11-20 17:43 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-20 18:10 ` Qais Yousef
2019-11-20 18:20 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-20 18:27 ` Qais Yousef
2019-11-20 19:28 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-20 19:55 ` Qais Yousef
2019-11-21 14:58 ` Qais Yousef
2019-11-22 14:34 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-11-25 9:59 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-25 11:13 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-10-21 7:50 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] sched/fair: rework the CFS load balance Ingo Molnar
2019-10-21 8:44 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-21 12:56 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-24 12:38 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-24 13:46 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-24 14:59 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-25 13:33 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-28 13:03 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 14:39 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-30 16:24 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-10-30 16:35 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-10-30 17:19 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-30 17:25 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-10-30 17:29 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-30 17:28 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 17:44 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-30 17:25 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-31 13:57 ` Phil Auld
2019-10-31 16:41 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-10-30 16:24 ` Mel Gorman
2019-10-30 16:35 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-11-18 13:15 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-11-25 12:48 ` Valentin Schneider
2020-01-03 16:39 ` Valentin Schneider
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