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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4] sched/fair: select idle cpu from idle cpumask for task wakeup
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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:06:36 +0000
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On 16/11/20 20:04, Aubrey Li wrote:
> From: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
>
> Add idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. When a CPU
> enters idle, if the idle driver indicates to stop tick, this CPU
> is set in the idle cpumask to be a wakeup target. And if the CPU
> is not in idle, the CPU is cleared in idle cpumask during scheduler
> tick to ratelimit idle cpumask update.
>
> When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
> has low cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
> especially when the system is heavily loaded.
>
> Benchmarks were tested on a x86 4 socket system with 24 cores per
> socket and 2 hyperthreads per core, total 192 CPUs. Hackbench and
> schbench have no notable change, uperf has:
>
> uperf throughput: netperf workload, tcp_nodelay, r/w size = 90
>
>   threads       baseline-avg    %std    patch-avg       %std
>   96            1               0.83    1.23            3.27
>   144           1               1.03    1.67            2.67
>   192           1               0.69    1.81            3.59
>   240           1               2.84    1.51            2.67
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
> Cc: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>

That's missing a v3 -> v4 change summary