Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-25 Thread Vincent Guittot
On 11 August 2014 15:33, Peter Zijlstra wrote: [snip] > > > Now I think I see why this is; we've reduced load balancing frequency > significantly on this machine due to: I agree with you about the root cause > > > -#define SD_SIBLING_INIT (struct sched_domain) { >

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-12 Thread kodiak furr
. Sent using Boxer On Aug 10, 2014 8:23 PM, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 05:05:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > > The "brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test" is the test case part. > > > > > > The "TOTAL XXX"

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-12 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 03:33:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > This view may be easier to read, by grouping the metrics by test case. > > > > test case: brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test > > OK, I have a similar system to the brick

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:29:19AM +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > On 08/11/2014 07:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > Now I think I see why this is; we've reduced load balancing frequency > > significantly on this machine due to: > > We have also changed the value of busy_factor to 32 from 64

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-11 Thread Preeti U Murthy
On 08/11/2014 07:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Now I think I see why this is; we've reduced load balancing frequency > significantly on this machine due to: We have also changed the value of busy_factor to 32 from 64 across all domains. This would contribute to increased frequency of load bala

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > This view may be easier to read, by grouping the metrics by test case. > > test case: brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test OK, I have a similar system to the brickland thing (slightly different configuration, but should be close enough).

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-10 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 05:05:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > The "brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test" is the test case part. > > > > The "TOTAL XXX" is the metric part. One test run may generate lots of > > metrics, reflecting diff

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > The "brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test" is the test case part. > > > > The "TOTAL XXX" is the metric part. One test run may generate lots of > > metrics, reflecting different aspect of the system dynamics.

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-10 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 06:54:13PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > The "brickland1/aim7/6000-page_test" is the test case part. > > The "TOTAL XXX" is the metric part. One test run may generate lots of > metrics, reflecting different aspect of the system dynamics. > > This view may be easier to read,

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-10 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:41:27PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > > > > FYI, we noticed some performance ups/downs on > > > > commit 143e1e28cb40bed836b0a06567208bd7347c9672 ("sched: Rework > > sched_domain topology

Re: [sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-10 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:41:27PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > FYI, we noticed some performance ups/downs on > > commit 143e1e28cb40bed836b0a06567208bd7347c9672 ("sched: Rework sched_domain > topology definition") > > 128529 ± 1% +17.9% 151594 ± 0% brickland1/aim7/

[sched] 143e1e28cb4: +17.9% aim7.jobs-per-min, -9.7% hackbench.throughput

2014-08-09 Thread Fengguang Wu
Hi Vincent, FYI, we noticed some performance ups/downs on commit 143e1e28cb40bed836b0a06567208bd7347c9672 ("sched: Rework sched_domain topology definition") 107437febd495a5 143e1e28cb40bed836b0a0656 testbox/testcase/testparams --- - --