From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
rjw@rjwysocki.net, srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180130131531.GD2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180130125718.iwntjuvcp3yplvdx@techsingularity.net>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:57:18PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:50:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Not saying this patch is bad; but Rafael / Srinivas we really should do
> > better. Why isn't cpufreq (esp. sugov) fixing this? HWP or not, we can
> > still give it hints, and it looks like we're not doing that.
> >
>
> I'm not sure if HWP can fix it because of the per-cpu nature of its
> decisions. I believe it can only give the most basic of hints to hardware
> like an energy performance profile or bias (EPP and EPB respectively).
> Of course HWP can be turned off but not many people can detect that it's
> an appropriate decision, or even desirable, and there is always the caveat
> that disabling it increases the system CPU footprint.
IA32_HWP_REQUEST has "Minimum_Performance", "Maximum_Performance" and
"Desired_Performance" fields which can be used to give explicit
frequency hints. And we really _should_ be doing that.
Because, esp. in this scenario; a task migrating; the hardware really
can't do anything sensible, whereas the OS _knows_.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-30 10:45 [PATCH 0/4] Reduce migrations and unnecessary spreading of load to multiple CPUs Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched/fair: Remove unnecessary parameters from wake_affine_idle Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:55 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Remove unnecessary parameters from wake_affine_idle() tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Restructure wake_affine to return a CPU id Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Restructure wake_affine*() " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/fair: Do not migrate if the prev_cpu is idle Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56 ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 10:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 12:57 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:15 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-01-30 13:25 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 14:06 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-31 9:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-01-31 10:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-31 11:54 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-31 17:44 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-01 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-01 7:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-01 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-01 13:18 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-02 11:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 14:54 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-02 19:48 ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-02 20:01 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 11:10 ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-05 17:04 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 17:50 ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-04 8:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-04 8:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 11:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-02-02 12:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 12:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 14:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-03 16:30 ` Srinivas Pandruvada
2018-02-05 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-05 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-02 12:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-02 13:27 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-30 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 13:35 ` Mike Galbraith
2018-01-30 11:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 12:59 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-30 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-30 13:18 ` Mel Gorman
2018-02-06 11:56 ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Mel Gorman
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