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Re: [patch] sched: Fix smp nice induced group scheduling load distribution woes

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [patch] sched: Fix smp nice induced group scheduling load distribution woes
Date 2016-04-28 11:20 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:09:51AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On even a modest sized NUMA box any load that wants to scale
> is essentially reduced to SCHED_IDLE class by smp nice scaling.
> Limit niceness to prevent cramming a box wide load into a too
> small space.  Given niceness affects latency, give the user the
> option to completely disable box wide group fairness as well.

Have you tried the (obvious) ?

I suppose we really should just do this (and yuyang's cleanup patches I
suppose). Nobody has ever been able to reproduce those increased power
usage claims and Google is running with this enabled.

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diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 69da6fcaa0e8..968f573413de 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static inline void cpu_load_update_active(struct rq *this_rq) { }
  * when BITS_PER_LONG <= 32 are pretty high and the returns do not justify the
  * increased costs.
  */
-#if 0 /* BITS_PER_LONG > 32 -- currently broken: it increases power usage under light load  */
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 # define SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION	10
 # define scale_load(w)		((w) << SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION)
 # define scale_load_down(w)	((w) >> SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION)

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  Re: [RFC] The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores Report Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 03:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC] The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores Report Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 09:10 +0200
      Re: [RFC] The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores Report Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 11:20 +0200
        [patch] sched: Fix smp nice induced group scheduling load  distribution woes Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-04-27 09:20 +0200
          Re: [patch] sched: Fix smp nice induced group scheduling load  distribution woes Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-28 11:20 +0200
            Re: [patch] sched: Fix smp nice induced group scheduling load  distribution woes Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 14:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC] The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores Report Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-25 11:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC] The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores Report Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> - 2016-04-25 20:00 +0200

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