On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 20:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Our SYNC hint does promise the caller will go away 'soon', although I'm
> not sure how many of the current users actually honor that.
The sync hint is not a lie, or even a damn lie, it's a statistic :)
It's very useful for...
TCP_SENDFILE
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep wakes|wc -l
2417
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep schedules|wc -l
4
TCP_STREAM
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep wakes|wc -l
2506
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep schedules|wc -l
3
TCP_MAERTS
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep wakes|wc -l
2465
homer:..debug/tracing # cat trace|grep netperf|grep schedules|wc -l
2
...knowing that tasks are talking, but not the least bit useful for
scheduler decisions other than "pull to same planet". Those are single
instances, all of which exceed 180% combined util, one at 100%. Then
there are multi-wakers, tasks that would have scheduled if they hadn't
been given more work to do etc etc. Nope, stacking based upon that
hint is most definitely not a good idea :)
-Mike
