On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 11:37 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
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> Here 0-day bot, here boy..
Forget it 0-day bot, and assorted crickets :)
> + /*
> + * When heavily loaded, stacking may be the best/only latency option,
> + * and LAST_BUDDY the only hope of preventing throughput collapse.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(task_cfs_rq(current)->nr_running >= sched_nr_latency) &&
> + task_cfs_rq(p)->nr_running >= sched_nr_latency)
> + return target;
With stock knob settings, that's too late to switch from llc -> l2
affinity for sync wakeups, and completely demolished tbench top end on
huge socket NUMA box with lots of bandwidth. Lovely for desktop,
somewhere below gawd-awful for big box performance.
-Mike
