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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, pjt@google.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	viresh.kumar@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:25:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51052ACB.3070703@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130127103508.GB8894@pd.tnic>

On 01/27/2013 06:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:36:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> With aim7 compute on 4 node 40 core box, I see stable throughput
>> improvement at tasks = nr_cores and below w. balance and powersaving. 
>>
>>          3.8.0-performance                                  3.8.0-balance                                      3.8.0-powersaving
>> Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu   jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu   jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
>>     1      432.86  100       432.8571     14.00      3.99     433.48  100       433.4764     13.98      3.97     433.17  100       433.1665     13.99      3.98
>>     1      437.23  100       437.2294     13.86      3.85     436.60  100       436.5994     13.88      3.86     435.66  100       435.6578     13.91      3.90
>>     1      434.10  100       434.0974     13.96      3.95     436.29  100       436.2851     13.89      3.89     436.29  100       436.2851     13.89      3.87
>>     5     2400.95   99       480.1902     12.62     12.49    2554.81   98       510.9612     11.86      7.55    2487.68   98       497.5369     12.18      8.22
>>     5     2341.58   99       468.3153     12.94     13.95    2578.72   99       515.7447     11.75      7.25    2527.11   99       505.4212     11.99      7.90
>>     5     2350.66   99       470.1319     12.89     13.66    2600.86   99       520.1717     11.65      7.09    2508.28   98       501.6556     12.08      8.24
>>    10     4291.78   99       429.1785     14.12     40.14    5334.51   99       533.4507     11.36     11.13    5183.92   98       518.3918     11.69     12.15
>>    10     4334.76   99       433.4764     13.98     38.70    5311.13   99       531.1131     11.41     11.23    5215.15   99       521.5146     11.62     12.53
>>    10     4273.62   99       427.3625     14.18     40.29    5287.96   99       528.7958     11.46     11.46    5144.31   98       514.4312     11.78     12.32
>>    20     8487.39   94       424.3697     14.28     63.14   10594.41   99       529.7203     11.44     23.72   10575.92   99       528.7958     11.46     22.08
>>    20     8387.54   97       419.3772     14.45     77.01   10575.92   98       528.7958     11.46     23.41   10520.83   99       526.0417     11.52     21.88
>>    20     8713.16   95       435.6578     13.91     55.10   10659.63   99       532.9815     11.37     24.17   10539.13   99       526.9565     11.50     22.13
>>    40    16786.70   99       419.6676     14.44    170.08   19469.88   98       486.7470     12.45     60.78   19967.05   98       499.1763     12.14     51.40
>>    40    16728.78   99       418.2195     14.49    172.96   19627.53   98       490.6883     12.35     65.26   20386.88   98       509.6720     11.89     46.91
>>    40    16763.49   99       419.0871     14.46    171.42   20033.06   98       500.8264     12.10     51.44   20682.59   98       517.0648     11.72     42.45
> 
> Ok, this is sick. How is balance and powersaving better than perf? Both
> have much more jobs per minute than perf; is that because we do pack
> much more tasks per cpu with balance and powersaving?

Maybe it is due to the lazy balancing on balance/powersaving. You can
check the CS times in /proc/pid/status.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


-- 
Thanks
    Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-27 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-24  3:06 Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 01/18] sched: set SD_PREFER_SIBLING on MC domain to reduce a domain level Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:11   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 13:22     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 12:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-16  5:16         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 14:17     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 02/18] sched: select_task_rq_fair clean up Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:14   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 14:44     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 03/18] sched: fix find_idlest_group mess logical Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:07     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 04/18] sched: don't need go to smaller sched domain Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 05/18] sched: quicker balancing on fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:13     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-14  8:12     ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-14 14:08       ` Alex Shi
2013-02-15 13:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 06/18] sched: give initial value for runnable avg of sched entities Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 07/18] sched: set initial load avg of new forked task Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:26   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:14     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:41       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14 13:07         ` Alex Shi
2013-02-19 11:34           ` Paul Turner
2013-02-20  4:18             ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-02-20  5:13             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 08/18] Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:23     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-13 15:45       ` Paul Turner
2013-02-14  3:07         ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 09/18] sched: add sched_policies in kernel Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-13 15:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 10/18] sched: add sysfs interface for sched_policy selection Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 11/18] sched: log the cpu utilization at rq Alex Shi
2013-02-12 10:39   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-14  3:10     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 12/18] sched: add power aware scheduling in fork/exec/wake Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 13/18] sched: packing small tasks in wake/exec balancing Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 14/18] sched: add power/performance balance allowed flag Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 15/18] sched: pull all tasks from source group Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 16/18] sched: don't care if the local group has capacity Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:06 ` [patch v4 17/18] sched: power aware load balance, Alex Shi
2013-01-24  3:07 ` [patch v4 18/18] sched: lazy power balance Alex Shi
2013-01-24  9:44 ` [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling Borislav Petkov
2013-01-24 15:07   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  2:41     ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27  4:36       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-27 10:35         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-27 13:25           ` Alex Shi [this message]
2013-01-27 15:51             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  5:17               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  5:51                 ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:15                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  6:42                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:20                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:17                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  9:55                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 10:44                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:29                     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 11:32                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 11:40                         ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28 15:22                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-28 15:55                             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:38                               ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:32                         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  1:36                       ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28 15:47                 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  1:45                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-29  4:03                     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  2:27                   ` Alex Shi
2013-01-27 10:40       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-27 14:03         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  5:19         ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  6:49           ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-28  7:17             ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  7:33               ` Mike Galbraith
2013-01-29  6:02           ` Alex Shi
2013-01-28  1:28 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04  1:35 ` Alex Shi
2013-02-04 11:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-02-05  2:26     ` Alex Shi
2013-02-06  5:08       ` Alex Shi

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