Re: [patch v3 0/8] sched: use runnable avg in load balance

[Michael Wang]

On 04/02/2013 04:35 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> The reason may caused by wake_affine()'s higher overhead, and pgbench is
>> really sensitive to this stuff...
> 
> Thanks for testing. Could you like to remove the last patch and test it
> again? I want to know if the last patch has effect on pgbench.

Done, here the results of pgbench without the last patch on my box:

| db_size | clients |  tps  |   |  tps  |
+---------+---------+-------+   +-------+
| 22 MB   |       1 | 10662 |   | 10679 |
| 22 MB   |       2 | 21483 |   | 21471 |
| 22 MB   |       4 | 42046 |   | 41957 |
| 22 MB   |       8 | 55807 |   | 55684 |
| 22 MB   |      12 | 50768 |   | 52074 |
| 22 MB   |      16 | 49880 |   | 52879 |
| 22 MB   |      24 | 45904 |   | 53406 |
| 22 MB   |      32 | 43420 |   | 54088 |	+24.57%
| 7484 MB |       1 |  7965 |   |  7725 |
| 7484 MB |       2 | 19354 |   | 19405 |
| 7484 MB |       4 | 37552 |   | 37246 |
| 7484 MB |       8 | 48655 |   | 50613 |
| 7484 MB |      12 | 45778 |   | 47639 |
| 7484 MB |      16 | 45659 |   | 48707 |
| 7484 MB |      24 | 42192 |   | 46469 |
| 7484 MB |      32 | 36385 |   | 46346 |	+27.38%
| 15 GB   |       1 |  7677 |   |  7727 |
| 15 GB   |       2 | 19227 |   | 19199 |
| 15 GB   |       4 | 37335 |   | 37372 |
| 15 GB   |       8 | 48130 |   | 50333 |
| 15 GB   |      12 | 45393 |   | 47590 |
| 15 GB   |      16 | 45110 |   | 48091 |
| 15 GB   |      24 | 41415 |   | 47415 |
| 15 GB   |      32 | 35988 |   | 45749 |	+27.12%

Very nice improvement, I'd like to test it with the wake-affine throttle
patch later, let's see what will happen ;-)

Any idea on why the last one caused the regression?

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 

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