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From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	pauld@redhat.com, valentin.schneider@arm.com,
	srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, quentin.perret@arm.com,
	dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com,
	hdanton@sina.com, parth@linux.ibm.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched, fair: Allow a small degree of load imbalance between SD_NUMA domains
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:58:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37ec5587dbb4035b883e5a69b56da4cc67f0e5ff.camel@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191218154402.GF3178@techsingularity.net>

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On Wed, 2019-12-18 at 15:44 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:

> +			/*
> +			 * Ignore imbalance unless busiest sd is close
> to 50%
> +			 * utilisation. At that point balancing for
> memory
> +			 * bandwidth and potentially avoiding
> unnecessary use
> +			 * of HT siblings is as relevant as memory
> locality.
> +			 */
> +			imbalance_max = (busiest->group_weight >> 1) -
> imbalance_adj;
> +			if (env->imbalance <= imbalance_adj &&
> +			    busiest->sum_nr_running < imbalance_max) {
> +				env->imbalance = 0;
> +			}
> +		}
>  		return;
>  	}

I can see how the 50% point is often great for HT,
but I wonder if that is also the case for SMT4 and
SMT8 systems...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-19  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-18 15:44 Mel Gorman
2019-12-18 18:50 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-18 22:50   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 11:56     ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 10:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-19 11:46     ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 14:23       ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 15:23     ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-18 18:54 ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19  2:58 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2019-12-19  8:41   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-19 14:45 ` Vincent Guittot
2019-12-19 15:16   ` Valentin Schneider
2019-12-19 15:18   ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-19 15:41     ` Vincent Guittot
2019-12-19 15:58       ` Mel Gorman
2019-12-20 13:00   ` Srikar Dronamraju

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