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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-12 08:14:52 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-13 20:17:11 +0200
commit0bf377bbb0bea6130f35613491887cc622e42a8b (patch)
tree1ecb56fb6195dcdb673ef3a08390b98e54f4f726 /kernel
parent49553c2ef88749dd502687f4eb9c258bb10a4f44 (diff)
sched: Improve latencies under load by decreasing minimum scheduling granularity
Mathieu reported bad latencies with make -j10 kind of kbuild workloads - which is mostly caused by us scheduling with a too coarse granularity. Reduce the minimum granularity some more, to make sure we can meet the latency target. I got the following results (make -j10 kbuild load, average of 3 runs): vanilla: maximum latency: 38278.9 µs average latency: 7730.1 µs patched: maximum latency: 22702.1 µs average latency: 6684.8 µs Mathieu also measured it: | | * wakeup-latency.c (SIGEV_THREAD) with make -j10 | | - Mainline 2.6.35.2 kernel | | maximum latency: 45762.1 µs | average latency: 7348.6 µs | | - With only Peter's smaller min_gran (shown below): | | maximum latency: 29100.6 µs | average latency: 6684.1 µs | Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <AANLkTi=8m4g01wZPacySoF7U0PevTNVgJoZZrHiUD-pN@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index 9b5b4f86b742..a171138a9402 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ enum sched_tunable_scaling sysctl_sched_tunable_scaling
* Minimal preemption granularity for CPU-bound tasks:
* (default: 2 msec * (1 + ilog(ncpus)), units: nanoseconds)
*/
-unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
-unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 2000000ULL;
+unsigned int sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
+unsigned int normalized_sysctl_sched_min_granularity = 750000ULL;
/*
* is kept at sysctl_sched_latency / sysctl_sched_min_granularity
*/
-static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 3;
+static unsigned int sched_nr_latency = 8;
/*
* After fork, child runs first. If set to 0 (default) then