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Message-Id: <1261056647.10838.26.camel@marge.simson.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:30:47 +0100
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@...anurb.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
LKML Mailinglist <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: x264 benchmarks BFS vs CFS
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 12:00 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 11:53 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@...anurb.dk> wrote:
> > > > well well :) nothing quite speaks out like graphs..
> > > >
> > > > http://doom10.org/index.php?topic=78.0
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Kasper Sandberg
> > >
> > > Yeah, I sent this to Mike a bit ago. Seems that .32 has basically tied
> > > it--and given the strict thread-ordering expectations of x264, you basically
> > > can't expect it to do any better, though I'm curious what's responsible for
> > > the gap in "veryslow", even with SCHED_BATCH enabled.
> > >
> > > The most odd case is that of "ultrafast", in which CFS immediately ties BFS
> > > when we enable SCHED_BATCH. We're doing some further testing to see exactly
>
> Thats kinda besides the point.
>
> all these tunables and weirdness is _NEVER_ going to work for people.
Fact is, it is working for a great number of people, the vast majority
of whom don't even know where the knobs are, much less what they do.
> now forgive me for being so blunt, but for a user, having to do
> echo x264 > /proc/cfs/gief_me_performance_on_app
> or
> echo some_benchmark > x264 > /proc/cfs/gief_me_performance_on_app
Theatrics noted.
> just isnt usable, bfs matches, even exceeds cfs on all accounts, with
> ZERO user tuning, so while cfs may be able to nearly match up with a ton
> of application specific stuff, that just doesnt work for a normal user.
Seems you haven't done much benchmarking. BFS has strengths as well as
weaknesses, all schedulers do.
> not to mention that bfs does this whilst not loosing interactivity,
> something which cfs certainly cannot boast.
Not true. I sent Con hard evidence of a severe problem area wrt
interactivity, and hard numbers showing other places where BFS needs
some work. But hey, if BFS blows your skirt up, use it and be happy.
-Mike
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