When asymmetric packing is set in the sched_domain and target CPU is
busy, update_sd_pick_busiest() may not select the busiest runqueue.
When target CPU is busy, find_busiest_group() will ignore checks for
asym packing and may continue to load balance using the currently
selected not-the-busiest runqueue as source runqueue.
Selecting the busiest runqueue as source when the target CPU is busy,
should result in achieving much better load balance.
Also when target CPU is not busy and asymmetric packing is set in sd,
select higher CPU as source CPU for load balancing.
While doing this change, move the check to see if target CPU is busy
into check_asym_packing().
The extent of performance benefit from this change decreases with the
increasing load. However there is benefit in undercommit as well as
overcommit conditions.
1. Record per second ebizzy (32 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations)
4.6.0-rc2
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev
ebizzy: 5223767.00 10368236.00 7946971.00 1753094.76
4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change
ebizzy: 8617191.00 13872356.00 11383980.00 1783400.89 +24.78%
2. Record per second ebizzy (64 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations)
4.6.0-rc2
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev
ebizzy: 6497666.00 18399783.00 10818093.20 4051452.08
4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change
ebizzy: 7567365.00 19456937.00 11674063.60 4295407.48 +4.40%
3. Record per second ebizzy (128 threads) on a 64 CPU power 7 box. (5 iterations)
4.6.0-rc2
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev
ebizzy: 37073983.00 40341911.00 38776241.80 1259766.82
4.6.0-rc2+asym-changes
Testcase: Min Max Avg StdDev %Change
ebizzy: 38030399.00 41333378.00 39827404.40 1255001.86 +2.54%
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459948660-16073-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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