Re: [patch] sched: introduce SD_BALANCE_FORK for ht/mc/smp domains

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* Siddha, Suresh B <[email protected]> wrote:

> Introduce SD_BALANCE_FORK for HT/MC/SMP domains.
> 
> For HT/MC, as caches are shared, SD_BALANCE_FORK is the right thing to 
> do. Given that NUMA domain already has this flag and the scheduler 
> currently doesn't have the concept of running threads belonging to a 
> process as close as possible(i.e., forking may keep close, but 
> periodic balance later will likely take them far away), introduce 
> SD_BALANCE_FORK for SMP domain too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>

i'm not opposed to this fundamentally, but it would be nice to better 
map the effects of this change: do you have any particular workload 
under which you've tested this and under which you've seen it makes a 
difference? I'd expect this to improve fork-intense half-idle workloads 
perhaps - things like a make -j3 on a 4-core CPU.

	Ingo
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