Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello, Vincent, Very cool, thank you for running this! So more than an order of magnitude improvement over your results from February, and significant improvement from this patch series compared to 3.5. Not bad! Thanx, Paul On Thu, Jul 26

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-26 Thread Vincent Guittot
Hi, I have run some tests to measure the improvement of the cpu plug duration with Tejun's patches. The results are available on this link: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/PowerManagement/Doc/Hotplug#Workqueue As a summary, we can see a reduction of the plug sequence compared to the kernel

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:14:46PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > Tejun just this week posted patches that park the workqueue kthreads, > which should reduce CPU-online latency under load. The easiest way to > get these patches appears to be to pull them from Tejun's git tree: > > g

Re: Tejun's modifications for CPU hotplug and workqueues

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello! Tejun just this week posted patches that park the workqueue kthreads, which should reduce CPU-online latency under load. The easiest way to get these patches appears to be to pull them from Tejun's git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git review-wq-hotplug They p