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From: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>,
	Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Scale wakeup granularity relative to nr_running
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 10:12:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVxdPGj92+FcVrgt@lorien.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVwqphxxNSDL828Y@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 12:36:22PM +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:24:03AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> 
> > It's capped at 8 cpus, which is pretty easy to reach these days, so the
> > values don't get too large.  That scaling is almost a no-op these days.
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YVwdrh5pg0zSv2/b@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
> 
> Ooh, hey, we already fixed that :-)
>

Thanks Peter.

I'm always a little behind upstream (nature of the job :)

That link leads to a message Id not found. But from what I can see the
code that takes the min of online cpus and 8 is still present. 


> So the reasoning there is that if the values get too big, interactiviy
> get *really* bad, but if you go from say 1 to 4 CPUs, interactivity can
> improve due to being able to run on other CPUs.
> 
> At 8 CPUs we end up at 6ms*4=24ms, which is already pretty terrible.
> 

And actually you mention the same thing later on.  Most systems, even
desktops, have 8+ cpus these days so the scaling is mostly not doing
anything except multiplying by 4, right? So no-op was not the right
way to describe it maybe. But it's not getting bigger with larger
numbers of cpus beyond a pretty commonly reached limit.


Cheers,
Phil

-- 


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-20 14:26 [PATCH 0/2] " Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] sched/fair: Remove redundant lookup of rq in check_preempt_wakeup Mel Gorman
2021-09-21  7:21   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21  7:53     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21  8:12       ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21  8:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-21 10:03         ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-20 14:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Scale wakeup granularity relative to nr_running Mel Gorman
2021-09-21  3:52   ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21  5:50     ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21  7:04     ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 10:36     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-21 12:32       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21 14:03         ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-05  9:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-22  5:22       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-22 13:20         ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 14:04           ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-22 14:15           ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 15:04             ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 16:00               ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 17:38                 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-22 18:22                   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-22 18:57                     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-23  1:47                     ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-23  8:40                       ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-23  9:21                         ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-23 12:41                           ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-23 13:14                             ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-27 11:17                             ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-27 14:17                               ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04  8:05                                 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-04 16:37                                   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-10-05  7:41                                     ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-27 14:19                               ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-27 15:02                                 ` Mel Gorman
2021-09-23 12:24                         ` Phil Auld
2021-10-05 10:36                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 14:12                             ` Phil Auld [this message]
2021-10-05 14:32                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 10:28                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05 10:23                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-05  9:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-22 15:05             ` Vincent Guittot
2021-10-05  9:32           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-10-03  3:07         ` wakeup_affine_weight() is b0rked - was " Mike Galbraith
2021-10-03  7:34           ` Barry Song
2021-10-03 14:52             ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-03 21:06               ` Barry Song
2021-10-04  1:49                 ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04  4:34             ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-04  9:06               ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-05  7:47                 ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-05  8:42                   ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-05  9:31                     ` Mel Gorman
2021-10-06  6:46                       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-10-08  5:06                       ` Mike Galbraith
2021-09-21  8:03   ` Vincent Guittot
2021-09-21 10:45     ` Mel Gorman

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