linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Core scheduling v4

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Message-ID: <20200225112153.GA618752@ziqianlu-desktop.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:21:53 +0800
From:   Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>
To:     Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@...il.com>
Cc:     Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@...italocean.com>,
        Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@...italocean.com>,
        Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@...italocean.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@...e.com>,
        Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg Kerr <kerrnel@...gle.com>, Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Core scheduling v4

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 06:40:02PM +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:34 PM Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 01:32:35PM +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
> > > Aaron - did you test this before? In other words, if you reset repo to your
> > > last commit:
> >
> > I did this test only recently when I started to think if I can use
> > coresched to boost main workload's performance in a colocated
> > environment.
> >
> > >
> > > - 5bd3c80 sched/fair : Wake up forced idle siblings if needed
> > >
> > > Does the problem remain? Just want to check if this is a regression
> > >  introduced by the subsequent patchset.
> >
> > The problem isn't there with commit 5bd3c80 as the head, so yes, it
> > looks like indeed a regression introduced by subsequent patchset.
> >
> > P.S. I will need to take a closer look if each cgA's task is running
> > on a different core later but the cpu usage of cgA is back to 800% with
> > commit 5bd3c80.
> 
> Hmm..., I went through the subsequent patches, and I think this one
> 
> - 4041eeb8f3 sched/fair: don't migrate task if cookie not match
> 
> is probably the major cause, can you please revert this one to see
> if the problem is gone?

Yes, reverting this one fixed the problem.