linux/arch/x86
Ingo Molnar 9fcd18c9e6 sched: re-tune balancing
Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems

Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain
balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems.

Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason
why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well.
(we already do this in the standard NUMA template.)

lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change:

before:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.60
 |   2 5.70

after:

 |   phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
 |   "size=0k ovr=2.65
 |   2 2.07

a 2.75x speedup.

pipe-test is similarly happy about it too:

 |  phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test
 |   18.26 usecs/loop.
 |   14.70 usecs/loop.
 |   14.38 usecs/loop.
 |   10.55 usecs/loop.              # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.
 |   8.59 usecs/loop.
 |   9.03 usecs/loop.
 |   8.94 usecs/loop.
 |   8.96 usecs/loop.
 |   8.63 usecs/loop.

Also:

 - disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings)
 - enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains

Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly:

           .28-rc3-11474e2c  .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             571              688    +17.08%
    2:            1236             1206    -2.55%
    4:            2381             2642    +9.89%
    8:            4958             5164    +3.99%
   16:            9580             9574    -0.07%
   32:            7128             8118    +12.20%
   64:            7342             8266    +11.18%
  128:            7342             8064    +8.95%
  256:            7519             7884    +4.62%
  512:            7350             7731    +4.93%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           55412            59341    +6.62%

So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 18:04:38 +01:00
..
boot .gitignore updates 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
configs x86: remove irqbalance in kernel for 32 bit 2008-10-16 16:52:52 +02:00
crypto crypto: crc32c - Use Intel CRC32 instruction 2008-08-29 15:49:50 +10:00
ia32 compat: generic compat get/settimeofday 2008-10-16 11:21:33 -07:00
include/asm sched: re-tune balancing 2008-11-05 18:04:38 +01:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-11-01 10:36:30 -07:00
kvm KVM: Fix guest shared interrupt with in-kernel irqchip 2008-10-28 14:21:34 +02:00
lguest lguest: fix irq vectors. 2008-10-31 11:24:28 +11:00
lib Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D 2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
mach-default Merge branches 'x86/prototypes', 'x86/x2apic' and 'x86/debug' into x86/core 2008-08-14 14:58:22 +02:00
mach-generic x86: make 32bit support per_cpu vector 2008-10-16 16:52:53 +02:00
mach-rdc321x removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
mach-voyager x86/voyager: fix missing cpu_index initialisation 2008-10-31 00:19:37 +01:00
math-emu
mm x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps 2008-10-31 10:12:38 +01:00
oprofile oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/* 2008-10-16 17:17:46 +02:00
pci x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Ibex Peak DeviceIDs 2008-10-20 10:53:48 -07:00
power Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D 2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
vdso Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:37:17 +02:00
video
xen Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-28 09:52:25 -07:00
Kconfig io mapping: clean up #ifdefs 2008-11-03 18:21:45 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu x86, bts: improve help text for BTS config 2008-10-28 16:39:37 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86: usb debug port early console, fix 2008-07-26 17:32:30 +02:00
Makefile x86, um: ... and asm-x86 move 2008-10-22 22:55:20 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86: merge winchip-2 and winchip-2a cpu choices 2008-10-13 10:22:48 +02:00