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SubjectRe: [rfc][patch] select_idle_sibling() inducing bouncing on westmere
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On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 16:29 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 07:11 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On 5/27/2012 2:17 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 10:27 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > >> Hohum, back to finding out what happened to cpufreq.
> > >
> > > Answer: nothing.. in mainline.
> > >
> > > I test performance habitually, so just never noticed how bad ondemand
> > > sucks. In enterprise, I found the below, explaining why cores crank up
> > > fine there, but not in mainline. Somebody thumped ondemand properly on
> > > it's pointy head.
> > >
> > > But, check out the numbers below this, and you can see just how horrible
> > > bouncing is when you add governor latency _on top_ of it.
> >
> > part of it is not ondemand, but cpufreq.
> > cpufreq forces you to schedule a kernel thread to change cpu
> > frequency... on the cpu that's already busy.
> > God knows what the scehduler then does in terms of load balancing.

(and yeah, I am lumping ondemand and cpufreq together, which is wrong)



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