On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:43:09AM -0700, Jason Low wrote: > If the below patch is what you were referring to, I believe this > can help too. This was also something that I was testing out before > we went with those patches which compares avg_idle with idle balance > cost. I recall seeing somewhere around a +7% performance improvement > in at least least 1 of the AIM7 workloads. I can do some more testing > with this.
Yes, exactly that. I can't remember the details, but I suspect we feared the less agressive idle balance due to that patch (it will only pull a single task, instead of multiple) would cause more idle_balance invocations and thereby decrease throughput. So I suppose something with _many_ bursty threads which leads to severe inequalities would be the workload to trigger that. Not sure we've ever seen that.. maybe Mike remembers, he seems to have a head for such details. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
