Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: check for idle core

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Mel Gorman wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Fixes: 11f10e5420f6 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path")
> > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
> > Reviewed-by Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> >
>
> While not a universal win, it was mostly a win or neutral. In few cases
> where there was a problem, one benchmark I'm a bit suspicious of generally
> as occasionally it generates bad results for unknown and unpredictable
> reasons. In another, it was very machine specific and the differences
> were small in absolte time rather than relative time. Other tests on the
> same machine were fine so overall;
>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

Recently, we have been testing the phoronix multicore benchmarks.  On v5.9
with this patch, the preparation time of phoronix slows down, from ~23
seconds to ~28 seconds.  In v5.11-rc4, we see 29 seconds.  It's not yet
clear what causes the problem.  But perhaps the patch should be removed
from v5.11, until the problem is understood.

commit d8fcb81f1acf651a0e50eacecca43d0524984f87

julia



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> Thanks.
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> Mel Gorman
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