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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] Reduce overhead of menu governor
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On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 02:19:17 PM Mel Gorman wrote:
> The menu_select function is heavy and is very noticable in profiles for
> workloads that enter/leave idle state a lot. This primarily happens
> for scheduler microbenchmarks. The biggest contibution is the standard
> deviation calculations and comparisons but the excessive calls into
> the scheduler core do not help.
>
> It would be nice to reduce the number of times nr_iowait is checked to
> once per 8 intervals but I was not sure how to measure what the general
> impact of such a change could be.
>
> Similiarly I looked at different ways the standard deviation could be
> calculated but the standard equivalent calculations potentially overflow.
> It could be done as rolling average and rolling deviation but again
> it was unclear how that could be evaluated. Tips on how the goodness/badness
> of governor changes are evalated would be nice.
>
> In the meantime, here are patches against some of the obvious stuff.

They look good, I'm going to apply them.

Rafael



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