On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 17:00 +0800, Michael Wang wrote: 
> On 01/23/2013 04:49 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 16:30 +0800, Michael Wang wrote: 
> >> On 01/23/2013 04:20 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 15:10 +0800, Michael Wang wrote: 
> >>>> On 01/23/2013 02:28 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Abbreviated test run:
> >>>>> Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
> >>>>>   640   158044.01   81       246.9438     24.54    577.66   Wed Jan 23 
> >>>>> 07:14:33 2013
> >>>>>  1280    50434.33   39        39.4018    153.80   5737.57   Wed Jan 23 
> >>>>> 07:17:07 2013
> >>>>>  2560    47214.07   34        18.4430    328.58  12715.56   Wed Jan 23 
> >>>>> 07:22:36 2013
> >>>>
> >>>> So still not works... and not going to balance path while waking up will
> >>>> fix it, looks like that's the only choice if no error on balance path
> >>>> could be found...benchmark wins again, I'm feeling bad...
> >>>>
> >>>> I will conclude the info we collected and make a v3 later.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW, I hacked virgin to do full balance if an idle CPU was not found,
> >>> leaving the preference to wake cache affine intact though, turned on
> >>> WAKE_BALANCE in all domains, and it did not collapse.  In fact, the high
> >>> load end, where the idle search will frequently be a waste of cycles,
> >>> actually improved a bit.  Things that make ya go hmmm.
> >>
> >> Oh, does that means the old balance path is good while the new is really
> >> broken, I mean, compared this with the previously results, could we say
> >> that all the collapse was just caused by the change of balance path?
> > 
> > That's a good supposition.  I'll see if it holds.
> 
> I just notice that there is no sd support the WAKE flag at all according
> to your debug info, isn't it?

There is, I turned it on in all domains.

-Mike

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