On 2020/11/18 20:06, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> 
> On 16/11/20 20:04, Aubrey Li wrote:
>> From: Aubrey Li <[email protected]>
>>
>> Add idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. When a CPU
>> enters idle, if the idle driver indicates to stop tick, this CPU
>> is set in the idle cpumask to be a wakeup target. And if the CPU
>> is not in idle, the CPU is cleared in idle cpumask during scheduler
>> tick to ratelimit idle cpumask update.
>>
>> When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
>> has low cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
>> especially when the system is heavily loaded.
>>
>> Benchmarks were tested on a x86 4 socket system with 24 cores per
>> socket and 2 hyperthreads per core, total 192 CPUs. Hackbench and
>> schbench have no notable change, uperf has:
>>
>> uperf throughput: netperf workload, tcp_nodelay, r/w size = 90
>>
>>   threads       baseline-avg    %std    patch-avg       %std
>>   96            1               0.83    1.23            3.27
>>   144           1               1.03    1.67            2.67
>>   192           1               0.69    1.81            3.59
>>   240           1               2.84    1.51            2.67
>>
>> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Vincent Guittot <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Qais Yousef <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Jiang Biao <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <[email protected]>
> 
> That's missing a v3 -> v4 change summary
> 

okay, I'll add in the next version soon.

Thanks,
-Aubrey

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