Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] AMD EPYC: fix schedutil perf regression (freq-invariance)

From: Giovanni Gherdovich
Date: Tue Jan 26 2021 - 06:24:35 EST


On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 09:34 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 04:30:57PM -0600, Michael Larabel wrote:
> > From ongoing tests of this patch, it still certainly shows to address most
> > of the Linux 5.11 performance regression previously encountered when using
> > Schedutil. Additionally, for a number of workloads where not seeing a
> > regression from 5.10 to 5.11 Git is still showing even better performance
> > with this patch. The power monitoring on the AMD EPYC server is showing
> > higher power spikes but the average power consumption rate is roughly
> > comparable to that of Linux 5.11 Git, which is higher than 5.10 by just
> > about 3%.
> >
> > So this patch still seems to be working out well and indeed taking care of
> > some wide losses seen otherwise on Linux 5.11 when using Schedutil on AMD
> > Zen2/Zen3. Still have some other tests running but so far no unexpected
> > results.
> >
>
> Did you do all this writing and forget to add:
>
> Tested-by: Michael Larabel <Michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ?

Michael confirmed me off-list that yes, the patch should carry the
"Tested-by" tag with his name.


Giovanni