From: Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@oracle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, steven.sistare@oracle.com,
dhaval.giani@oracle.com, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
vincent.guittot@linaro.org, viresh.kumar@linaro.org,
tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
parth@linux.ibm.com, patrick.bellasi@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/9] sched: search SMT before LLC domain
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:40:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fadf55b2-c825-8636-6c9a-6eedf9a20733@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190905093127.GI2349@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 9/5/19 2:31 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:49:42AM -0700, subhra mazumdar wrote:
>> Search SMT siblings before all CPUs in LLC domain for idle CPU. This helps
>> in L1 cache locality.
>> ---
>> kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> index 8856503..94dd4a32 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
>> @@ -6274,11 +6274,11 @@ static int select_idle_sibling(struct task_struct *p, int prev, int target)
>> return i;
>> }
>>
>> - i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, target);
>> + i = select_idle_smt(p, target);
>> if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
>> return i;
>>
>> - i = select_idle_smt(p, target);
>> + i = select_idle_cpu(p, sd, target);
>> if ((unsigned)i < nr_cpumask_bits)
>> return i;
>>
> But it is absolutely conceptually wrong. An idle core is a much better
> target than an idle sibling.
This is select_idle_smt not select_idle_core.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-05 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 17:49 [RFC PATCH 0/9] Task latency-nice subhra mazumdar
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] sched,cgroup: Add interface for latency-nice subhra mazumdar
2019-09-04 17:32 ` Tim Chen
2019-09-05 6:15 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-05 10:11 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-06 12:22 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-05 8:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 9:45 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 10:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 11:13 ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-05 11:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 11:40 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 11:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 13:32 ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-05 11:47 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-16 0:02 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-04-16 17:23 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2020-04-18 16:01 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-04-20 11:26 ` Parth Shah
2020-04-20 19:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-04-20 11:47 ` Qais Yousef
2020-04-20 19:10 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-05 11:30 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 11:18 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 11:46 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 11:46 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-05 13:07 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 14:48 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-06 12:45 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-06 14:13 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-06 14:32 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-09-06 17:10 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-06 22:50 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-06 12:31 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-05 10:05 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 10:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] sched: add search limit as per latency-nice subhra mazumdar
2019-09-05 6:22 ` Parth Shah
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] sched: add sched feature to disable idle core search subhra mazumdar
2019-09-05 10:17 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-09-05 22:02 ` Subhra Mazumdar
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] sched: SIS_CORE " subhra mazumdar
2019-09-05 10:19 ` Patrick Bellasi
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] sched: Define macro for number of CPUs in core subhra mazumdar
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] x86/smpboot: Optimize cpumask_weight_sibling macro for x86 subhra mazumdar
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] sched: search SMT before LLC domain subhra mazumdar
2019-09-05 9:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 20:40 ` Subhra Mazumdar [this message]
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] sched: introduce per-cpu var next_cpu to track search limit subhra mazumdar
2019-08-30 17:49 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] sched: rotate the cpu search window for better spread subhra mazumdar
2019-09-05 6:37 ` Parth Shah
2019-09-05 5:55 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] Task latency-nice Parth Shah
2019-09-05 10:31 ` Patrick Bellasi
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