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Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline

From Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline
Date 2015-12-04 03:10 +0100
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On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 14:34 -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/02/2015 11:32 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> > Is that with the box booted skew_tick=1?

> I haven't tried that kernel parameter. I will try it to see if it can 
> improve the situation. BTW, will there be other undesirable side effects 
> of using this other than the increased power consumption as said in the 
> kernel-parameters.txt file?

Not that are known.  I kinda doubt you'd notice the power, but you
should see a notable performance boost.  Who knows, with a big enough
farm of busy big boxen, it may save power by needing fewer of them.

	-Mike 

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[PATCH v2 0/3] sched/fair: Reduce contention on tg's load_avg Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-02 19:50 +0100
  [PATCH v2 1/3] sched/fair: Avoid redundant idle_cpu() call in update_sg_lb_stats() Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-02 19:50 +0100
  [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/fair: Disable tg load_avg update for root_task_group Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-02 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] sched/fair: Disable tg load_avg update for root_task_group bsegall@google.com - 2015-12-02 21:00 +0100
    [tip:sched/core] sched/fair:   Disable the task group load_avg update for the root_task_group tip-bot for Waiman Long <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2015-12-04 13:00 +0100
  [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-02 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline bsegall@google.com - 2015-12-02 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-03 20:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline bsegall@google.com - 2015-12-03 20:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 05:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-03 20:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 03:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-04 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 12:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-03 20:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 12:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline bsegall@google.com - 2015-12-03 19:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 19:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline bsegall@google.com - 2015-12-03 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own cacheline Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com> - 2015-12-03 21:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg into its own  cacheline Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-03 21:10 +0100
    [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Move the cache-hot 'load_avg'   variable into its own cacheline tip-bot for Waiman Long <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2015-12-04 13:00 +0100

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