linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jul 2015 07:13:10 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
To:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, riel@...hat.com,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	morten.rasmussen@....com, kernel-team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for
 BALANCE_WAKE

Hm.  Piddling with pgbench, which doesn't seem to collapse into a
quivering heap when load exceeds cores these days, deltas weren't all
that impressive, but it does appreciate the extra effort a bit, and a
bit more when clients receive it as well.

If you test, and have time to piddle, you could try letting wake_wide()
return 1 + sched_feat(WAKE_WIDE_IDLE) instead of adding only if wakee is
the dispatcher.

Numbers from my little desktop box.

NO_WAKE_WIDE_IDLE
postgres@...er:~> pgbench.sh
clients 8       tps = 116697.697662
clients 12      tps = 115160.230523
clients 16      tps = 115569.804548
clients 20      tps = 117879.230514
clients 24      tps = 118281.753040
clients 28      tps = 116974.796627
clients 32      tps = 119082.163998   avg   117092.239   1.000

WAKE_WIDE_IDLE
postgres@...er:~> pgbench.sh
clients 8       tps = 124351.735754
clients 12      tps = 124419.673135
clients 16      tps = 125050.716498
clients 20      tps = 124813.042352
clients 24      tps = 126047.442307
clients 28      tps = 125373.719401
clients 32      tps = 126711.243383   avg   125252.510   1.069   1.000

WAKE_WIDE_IDLE (clients as well as server)
postgres@...er:~> pgbench.sh
clients 8       tps = 130539.795246
clients 12      tps = 128984.648554
clients 16      tps = 130564.386447
clients 20      tps = 129149.693118
clients 24      tps = 130211.119780
clients 28      tps = 130325.355433
clients 32      tps = 129585.656963   avg   129908.665   1.109   1.037

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