Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Core scheduling v4

[Aaron Lu]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 02:10:36PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> On 2020/3/5 12:33, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:54:39AM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> >> On 2020/3/3 22:59, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> >>> On 2020/2/29 7:55, Tim Chen wrote:
> > ...
> >>>> In Vinnet's fix, we only look at the currently running task's weight in
> >>>> src and dst rq.  Perhaps the load on the src and dst rq needs to be considered
> >>>> to prevent too great an imbalance between the run queues?
> >>>
> >>> We are trying to migrate a task, can we just use cfs.h_nr_running? This signal
> >>> is used to find the busiest run queue as well.
> >>
> >> How about this one? the cgroup weight issue seems fixed on my side.
> > 
> > It doesn't apply on top of your coresched_v4-v5.5.2 branch, so I
> > manually allied it. Not sure if I missed something.
> 
> Here is a rebase version on coresched_v5 Vineeth released this morning:
> https://github.com/aubreyli/linux/tree/coresched_V5-v5.5.y-rc1
> 
> > 
> > It's now getting 4 cpus in 2 cores. Better, but not back to normal yet..
> 
> I always saw higher weight tasks getting 8 cpus in 4 cores on my side.
> Are you still running 8+16 sysbench cpu threads? 

I used the wrong workload for high weight cgroup. After using sysbench
for high weight cgroup, I also see the problem fixed. Sorry for the noise.

P.S. I used redis-server as the high weight workload this morning, it has
some softirq processing and I guess that makes things not as expected.

Thanks,
Aaron

> 
> I replicated your setup, the cpuset with 8cores 16threads, cpu mode 8 sysbench
> threads with cpu.shares=10240, 16 sysbench threads with cpu.shares=2, and here
> is the data on my side.
> 
> 				weight(10240)		weight(2)
> coresched disabled		324.23(eps)		356.43(eps)
> coresched enabled		340.74(eps)		311.62(eps)
> 
> It seems higher weight tasks win this time and lower weight tasks have ~15%
> regression(not big deal?), did you see anything worse?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Aubrey