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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86,sched: Fix sched_smt_power_savings totally broken
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On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:56 +0800, Youquan Song wrote:
> sched_smt_power_savings is totally broken at lastest linux and -tip tree.

Yes it is.. also that knob should die! Like i've been saying for way too
long. I'm >< close to committing a patch removing all the power_saving
magic from the scheduler.

> sched_smt_power_savings is set to 1, the scheduler tries to schedule processes
> on the least number of hyper-threads on a core as possible. In other words,
> the process load is distributed such that all the hyper-threads in a core and
> all the cores within the same processor are busy before the load is distributed
> to other hyper-threads and cores in another processor.

That's the most convoluted way I've seen that stated in a while. What
you're saying is that all threads (of a socket) should be used before
spilling over to another socket.

> This patch will set SMT sibling power capability to SCHED_POWER_SCALE
> (1024) when sched_smt_power_savings set. So when there is possible do power
> saving during scheduling, scheduler will truly schedule processes as
> sched_smt_power_savings should do.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Anhua Xu <anhua.xu@intel.com>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index a4d2b7a..5be1d43 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -3715,6 +3715,9 @@ unsigned long default_scale_smt_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
> unsigned long weight = sd->span_weight;
> unsigned long smt_gain = sd->smt_gain;
>
> + if (sched_smt_power_savings)
> + return SCHED_POWER_SCALE;
> +
> smt_gain /= weight;
>
> return smt_gain;

Hell no, that's completely the wrong thing to do. I think you want to
frob at the group_capacity computation in update_sg_lb_stats.



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