linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] sched: simplify the select_task_rq

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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:36:37 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, alex.shi@...el.com,
	Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
	"Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] sched: simplify the select_task_rq_fair()

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 10:37 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
> But that's really some benefit hardly to be estimate, especially when
> the workload is heavy, the cost of wake_affine() is very high to
> calculated se one by one, is that worth for some benefit we could not
> promise?

Look at something like pipe-test.. wake_affine() used to ensure both
client/server ran on the same cpu, but then I think we added
select_idle_sibling() and wrecked it again :/

$ taskset 1 perf bench sched pipe
# Running sched/pipe benchmark...
# Extecuted 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks

     Total time: 3.761 [sec]

       3.761725 usecs/op
         265835 ops/sec

$ perf bench sched pipe
# Running sched/pipe benchmark...
# Extecuted 1000000 pipe operations between two tasks

     Total time: 29.809 [sec]

      29.809720 usecs/op
          33546 ops/sec

Now as far as I can see there's two options, either we find there's
absolutely no benefit in wake_affine() as it stands today and we simply
disable/remove it, or we go fix it. What we don't do is completely
wreck it at atrocious cost.

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