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sched: Improve latencies and throughput

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Make the idle balancer more agressive, to improve a
x264 encoding workload provided by Jason Garrett-Glaser:

 NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 252.82 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 250.69 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 245.76 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 344.44 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 346.66 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 352.59 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

 NO_NEXT_BUDDY NO_LB_BIAS
 encoded 600 frames, 425.75 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 425.45 fps, 22096.60 kb/s
 encoded 600 frames, 422.49 fps, 22096.60 kb/s

Peter pointed out that this is better done via newidle_idx,
not via LB_BIAS, newidle balancing should look for where
there is load _now_, not where there was load 2 ticks ago.

Worst-case latencies are improved as well as no buddies
means less vruntime spread. (as per prior lkml discussions)

This change improves kbuild-peak parallelism as well.

Reported-by: Jason Garrett-Glaser <darkshikari@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1253011667.9128.16.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Mike Galbraith
2009-09-15 15:07:03 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 6bd7821f90
commit 0ec9fab3d1
6 changed files with 9 additions and 9 deletions
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@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(AFFINE_WAKEUPS, 1)
* wakeup-preemption), since its likely going to consume data we
* touched, increases cache locality.
*/
SCHED_FEAT(NEXT_BUDDY, 1)
SCHED_FEAT(NEXT_BUDDY, 0)
/*
* Prefer to schedule the task that ran last (when we did