RE: [RFC][PATCH] sched: aggressive idle balance

From: Chen, Kenneth W
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 16:39:47 EST


Andrew Theurer wrote on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:17 PM
>
> So far we have seen 3-5% with these patches on online transaction workolads
> and no regressions on SDET. Kenneth, I am particularly interested in using
> this with your increased cache_hot_time value, where you got your best
> throughput:
>
> ...but still had idle time. Do you think you could try these patches with
> your 25ms cache_hot_time? I think your workload could benefit from both the
> longer cache_hot_time for busy cpus, but more aggressive idle balances,
> hopefully driving your workload to 100% cpu utilization.

Looks interesting, I will queue this up on our benchmark setup.

- Ken


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