From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
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 16:32:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVxh/NE2me6ueCNP@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVxdPGj92+FcVrgt@lorien.usersys.redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:12:12AM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> 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.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/YVwblBZ9JBn9vvVr@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/T/#u
Seems to work, I must've messed up the copy/paste or something.
> But from what I can see the code that takes the min of online cpus and
> 8 is still present.
Yes, and it should be. I was the confused one. I forgot we added it and
suggested we should add it again :-)
> > 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.
Yeah, the whole scaling thing is of dubious value these days, the whole
1-8 range is for embedded stuff these days, I mean, only low-end phones
are maybe even still in that range -- oh and my laptop.. :/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-05 15:15 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
2021-10-05 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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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