From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:18:05 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcutorture: Do better bin packing X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~183^2~1^2^2~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53954671033dc878acbeef1ecf9ac653c7b1a58f;p=pandora-kernel.git rcutorture: Do better bin packing Running the standard set of rcutorture tests on 24 CPUs results in the following sub-optimal schedule: ----start batch---- TREE07 16 ----start batch---- TREE08 16 SRCU-P 8 ----start batch---- TREE01 8 TREE02 8 TREE03 8 ----start batch---- TREE04 8 TREE05 8 TREE06 8 ----start batch---- SRCU-N 4 TINY01 1 TINY02 1 TREE09 1 If one of the eight-CPU runs were to be moved into the first batch, the test suite would complete in four batches rather than five. This commit therefore uses a greedy algorithm to re-order the test entries so that the sequential batching will produce an optimal schedule in this case: ----start batch---- TREE07 16 SRCU-P 8 ----start batch---- TREE08 16 TREE01 8 ----start batch---- TREE02 8 TREE03 8 TREE04 8 ----start batch---- TREE05 8 TREE06 8 SRCU-N 4 TINY01 1 TINY02 1 TREE09 1 Please note that this is still not an optimal bin-packing algorithm, however, it does produce optimal solutions for most common scenarios. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- Reading git-diff-tree failed