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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, tony.luck@intel.com,
	fenghua.yu@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@linux.intel.com, pjt@google.com,
	fengguang.wu@intel.com, james.hogan@imgtec.com,
	jason.low2@hp.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	hanjun.guo@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] sched: remove cpu_load decay
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:27:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52AC5CDF.8050209@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131213200303.GI2480@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 12/14/2013 04:03 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> 
> I had a quick peek at the actual patches.
> 
> afaict we're now using weighted_cpuload() aka runnable_load_avg as the
> ->cpu_load. Whatever happened to also using the blocked_avg?

When enabling the sched_avg in load balance, I didn't find any positive
testing result for several blocked_avg trying, just few regression. :(

And since this patchset is almost clean up only, no blocked_load_avg
trying again...

> 
> I totally hate patch 4; it seems like a random hack to make up for the
> lack of blocked_avg.

Yes, this bias criteria seems a bit arbitrary. :)
But, anyway even with blocked_load_avg, we still need to consider to
bias to local cpu. like in a scenario, 2 cpus both has nearly zero
blocked_load_avg.

BTW,

Paul, do you has new idea on blocked_load_avg using?

-- 
Thanks
    Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-14 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-03  9:05 Alex Shi
2013-12-03  9:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] sched: shortcut to remove load_idx Alex Shi
2013-12-03  9:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] sched: remove rq->cpu_load[load_idx] array Alex Shi
2013-12-03  9:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] sched: clean up cpu_load update Alex Shi
2013-12-03  9:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] sched: bias to target cpu load to reduce task moving Alex Shi
2013-12-04  9:06   ` Yuanhan Liu
2013-12-04 11:25     ` Alex Shi
2013-12-17 14:10   ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-17 15:38     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-19 13:34       ` Alex Shi
2013-12-20 11:19         ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 14:45           ` Alex Shi
2013-12-25 14:58           ` Alex Shi
2014-01-02 16:04             ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-06 13:35               ` Alex Shi
2014-01-07 12:55                 ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 12:59                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 13:15                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 13:32                       ` Vincent Guittot
2014-01-07 13:40                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-07 15:16                       ` Morten Rasmussen
2014-01-07 20:37                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-08 14:15                     ` Alex Shi
2013-12-03 10:26 ` [PATCH 0/4] sched: remove cpu_load decay Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-10  1:04   ` Alex Shi
2013-12-10  1:06     ` Paul Turner
2013-12-13 19:50     ` bsegall
2013-12-14 12:53       ` Alex Shi
2013-12-13 20:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-14 13:27   ` Alex Shi [this message]
2013-12-17 14:04     ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-17 15:37       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-17 18:12         ` Morten Rasmussen
2013-12-20 14:43           ` Alex Shi

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