linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] sched: consider runnable load average in effective

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Message-ID: <5189AB83.6060503@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 May 2013 09:33:55 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Michael Wang <wangyun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] sched: consider runnable load average in effective_load

On 05/07/2013 01:43 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
>> > This also brings forth another question,should we modify wake_affine()
>> > to pass the runnable load average of the waking up task to effective_load().
>> > 
>> > What do you think?
> I am not Paul. :)
> 
> The acceptable patch of pgbench attached. In fact, since effective_load is mixed 
> with direct load and tg's runnable load. the patch looks no much sense.
> So, I am going to agree to drop it if there is no performance benefit on my benchmarks.

This has a bad results on hackbench on 4 socket NHM/SNB machine, and has
bad result oltp on NHM EX. machine. So, drop it.

-- 
Thanks
    Alex
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