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Message-Id: <20191210101116.GA9139@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:41:16 +0530
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fs <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/core: Preempt current task in favour of bound
 kthread

* Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org> [2019-12-10 10:43:46]:

> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 06:43, Srikar Dronamraju
> <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is more prone to happen if the current running task is CPU
> > intensive and the sched_wake_up_granularity is set to larger value.
> > When the sched_wake_up_granularity was relatively small, it was observed
> > that the bound thread would complete before the load balancer would have
> > chosen to move the cache hot task to a different CPU.
> >
> > To deal with this situation, the current running task would yield to a
> > per CPU bound kthread, provided kthread is not CPU intensive.
> >
> > /pboffline/hwcct_prg_old/lib/fsperf -t overwrite --noclean -f 5g -b 4k /pboffline
> >
> > (With sched_wake_up_granularity set to 15ms)
> 
> So you increase sched_wake_up_granularity to a high level to ensure
> that current is no preempted by waking thread but then you add a way
> to finally preempt it which is somewhat weird IMO
> 

Yes, setting to a smaller value will help mitigate/solve the problem.
There may be folks out who have traditionally set a high wake_up_granularity
(and have seen better performance with it), who may miss out that when using
blk-mq, such settings will cause more harm. And they may continue to see
some performance regressions when they move to a lower wake_up_granularity.

> Have you tried to increase the priority of workqueue thread  (decrease
> nice priority) ? This is the right way to reduce the impact of the
> sched_wake_up_granularity on the wakeup of your specific kthread.
> Because what you want at the end is keeping a low wakeup granularity
> for these io workqueues
> 

Yes, people can tune the priority of workqueue threads and infact it may be
easier to set wake_up_granularity to a lower value. However the point is how
do we make everyone aware that they are running into a performance issue
with a higher wakeup_granularity?

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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