On 04/11/2013 04:44 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:26 +0800, Michael Wang wrote: > >> The 1:N is a good reason to explain why the chance that wakee's hot data >> cached on curr_cpu is lower, and since it's just 'lower' not 'extinct', >> after the throttle interval large enough, it will be balanced, this >> could be proved, since during my test, when the interval become too big, >> the improvement start to drop. > > Magnitude of improvement drops just because there's less damage done > methinks. You'll eventually run out of measurable damage :) > > Yes, it's not really extinct, you _can_ reap a gain, it's just not at > all likely to work out. A more symetric load will fare better, but any > 1:N thing just has to spread far and wide to have any chance to perform.
Agree. >> Hmm...that's an interesting point, the workload contain different >> 'priority' works, and depend on each other, if mother starving, all the >> kids could do nothing but wait for her, may be that's the reason why the >> benefit is so significant, since in such case, mother's little quicker >> respond will make all the kids happy :) > > Exactly. The entire load is server latency bound. Keep the server on > cpu, the load performs as best it can given unavoidable data miss cost. Nice point :) Regards, Michael Wang > > -Mike > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
