Re: [PATCH] sched: smart wake-affine

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Jul 02 2013 - 01:54:57 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 12:43 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
> Since RFC:
> Tested again with the latest tip 3.10.0-rc7.
>
> wake-affine stuff is always trying to pull wakee close to waker, by theory,
> this will bring benefit if waker's cpu cached hot data for wakee, or the
> extreme ping-pong case.
>
> And testing show it could benefit hackbench 15% at most.

How much does this still help with Alex's patches integrated?

aside: were I a maintainer, I'd be a little concerned that what this
helps with collides somewhat with the ongoing numa work.

-Mike

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