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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] select_idle_sibling experiments
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:27:24AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 14:08 -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> > Now, on to the patch. I pushed some code around and narrowed the
> > problem down to select_idle_sibling() We have cores going into and out
> > of idle fast enough that even this cut our latencies in half:
>
> Are you using NO_HZ? If so, you may want to try the attached.

[ nohz throttling patch ]

I tested the nohz throttle two different ways, first with schbench's
pipe simulation, it's easily 8% faster with messages bouncing between
cpus.

In production it's hard to pick a single number because the benchmarks
produce latency curves as the workload scales up in RPS. The benefits
range from 2-9% depending on the metric. It's a nice win, and I'd love to
see it go in.

-chris

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