From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/numa: Do not move imbalanced load purely on the basis of an idle CPU
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:36:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180912093621.GY24106@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180912065410.GA5352@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:24:10PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Kernel A = 4.18+ 13 sched patches part of v4.19-rc1.
> Kernel B = Kernel A + 6 patches (http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1533276841-16341-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
> Kernel C = Kernel B - (Avoid task migration for small numa improvement) i.e
> http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1533276841-16341-4-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
> + 2 patches from Mel
> (Do not move imbalanced load purely)
> http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180907101139.20760-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
> (Stop comparing tasks for NUMA placement)
> http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180907101139.20760-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
But that's not a fair comparison :/ You've complicated things by adding
that second patch from Mel.
Now you cannot (unambiguously) tell what the cause for the performance
difference is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-12 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 10:11 [PATCH 0/4] Follow-up fixes for v4.19-rc1 NUMA balancing Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 10:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched/numa: Remove redundant numa_stats nr_running field Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 10:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched/numa: Remove unused calculations in update_numa_stats Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 10:11 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched/numa: Stop comparing tasks for NUMA placement after selecting an idle core Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 13:05 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-09-07 14:20 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 10:11 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched/numa: Do not move imbalanced load purely on the basis of an idle CPU Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 11:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-07 12:37 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 12:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-07 13:42 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-09-07 14:28 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-10 9:41 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-12 6:54 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-09-12 9:36 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-09-12 10:45 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-09-12 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2018-09-12 10:27 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-09-12 10:57 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-12 10:52 ` Mel Gorman
2018-09-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] Follow-up fixes for v4.19-rc1 NUMA balancing Peter Zijlstra
2018-09-07 12:29 ` Mel Gorman
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