alistair23-linux/arch
Ingo Molnar 9fcd18c9e6 sched: re-tune balancing
Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems

Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain
balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems.

Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason
why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well.
(we already do this in the standard NUMA template.)

lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change:

before:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.60
 |   2 5.70

after:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.65
 |   2 2.07

a 2.75x speedup.

pipe-test is similarly happy about it too:

 |  phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test
 |   18.26 usecs/loop.
 |   14.70 usecs/loop.
 |   14.38 usecs/loop.
 |   10.55 usecs/loop.              # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.
 |   8.59 usecs/loop.
 |   9.03 usecs/loop.
 |   8.94 usecs/loop.
 |   8.96 usecs/loop.
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.

Also:

 - disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings)
 - enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains

Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly:

           .28-rc3-11474e2c  .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             571              688    +17.08%
    2:            1236             1206    -2.55%
    4:            2381             2642    +9.89%
    8:            4958             5164    +3.99%
   16:            9580             9574    -0.07%
   32:            7128             8118    +12.20%
   64:            7342             8266    +11.18%
  128:            7342             8064    +8.95%
  256:            7519             7884    +4.62%
  512:            7350             7731    +4.93%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           55412            59341    +6.62%

So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 18:04:38 +01:00
..
alpha Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
arm [ARM] 5326/1: AFEB9260: Fix for i2c_board_info structure 2008-10-30 15:43:42 +00:00
avr32 Merge branches 'boards' and 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6 2008-10-23 15:24:10 +02:00
blackfin container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
cris [CRIS] Remove links from CRIS build 2008-10-31 23:37:57 +01:00
frv container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
ia64 saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
m68k proc: move /proc/stram to m68k-specific code 2008-10-23 14:25:35 +04:00
m68knommu container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
mips CHAR: Delete old and now unused M48T35 RTC driver for SGI IP27. 2008-10-30 14:44:35 +00:00
mn10300 mn10300: use bcd2bin/bin2bcd 2008-10-20 08:52:41 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
powerpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-11-02 10:15:52 -08:00
s390 [S390] s390: Fix build for !CONFIG_S390_GUEST + CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE 2008-10-28 11:12:06 +01:00
sh sh: fix sh2a cache entry_mask 2008-10-31 16:29:20 +09:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-11-02 10:16:44 -08:00
sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-11-02 10:16:44 -08:00
um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev 2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
x86 sched: re-tune balancing 2008-11-05 18:04:38 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Kconfig Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00