From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, mingo@kernel.org,
linux@arm.linux.org.uk, pjt@google.com, santosh.shilimkar@ti.com,
morten.rasmussen@arm.com, chander.kashyap@linaro.org,
cmetcalf@tilera.com, tony.luck@intel.com, alex.shi@intel.com,
preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, len.brown@intel.com,
amit.kucheria@linaro.org, corbet@lwn.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] sched: pack small tasks
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:46:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364373980.5053.57.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5151BEF2.9090100@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 08:29 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Isn't this basically related to picking the NO_HZ cpu; if the system
> > isn't fully symmetric with its power gates you want the NO_HZ cpu to be
> > the 'special' cpu. If it is symmetric we really don't care which core
> > is left 'running' and we can even select a new pack cpu from the idle
> > cores once the old one is fully utilized.
>
> you don't really care much sure, but there's some advantages for sorting "all the way left",
> e.g. to linux cpu 0.
> Some tasks only run there, and interrupts tend to be favored to that cpu as well on x86.
Right, and I suspect all the big-little nonsense will have the little
cores on low numbers as well (is this architected or can a creative
licensee screw us over?)
So find_new_ilb() already does cpumask_first(), so it has a strong
leftmost preference. We just need to make sure it indeed does the right
thing and doesn't have some unintended side effect.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-22 12:25 [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks Vincent Guittot
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/6] Revert "sched: Introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Vincent Guittot
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/6] sched: add a new SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN flag for sched_domain Vincent Guittot
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] sched: pack small tasks Vincent Guittot
2013-03-26 12:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-27 10:21 ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-03-27 11:00 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-04-26 10:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-26 11:34 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-04-26 10:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-26 10:32 ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-03-26 12:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 13:00 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 4:33 ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-03-27 4:48 ` Alex Shi
2013-03-27 8:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 12:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 13:53 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-26 15:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-03-27 8:46 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-03-27 8:54 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 9:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20130327111855.GI801@MacBook-Pro.local>
[not found] ` <1364393634.5053.71.camel@laptop>
[not found] ` <20130327163642.GA1136@localhost.cambridge.arm.com>
2013-03-27 17:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-03-27 17:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-03-27 15:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] sched: secure access to other CPU statistics Vincent Guittot
2013-03-26 12:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 13:06 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] sched: pack the idle load balance Vincent Guittot
2013-03-26 12:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 14:03 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-26 14:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-26 15:55 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 4:56 ` Alex Shi
2013-03-27 8:05 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 8:47 ` Alex Shi
2013-03-27 10:30 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 13:32 ` Alex Shi
2013-03-27 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-05 11:08 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-04-22 5:45 ` Preeti U Murthy
[not found] ` <CAKfTPtCCCifC=c+xjjnAH_HSqkR80PiQoddQKXPHuZwZawbvcA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-23 2:23 ` Alex Shi
2013-04-23 4:57 ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-04-23 15:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-04-26 10:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-04-23 4:36 ` Preeti U Murthy
2013-03-22 12:25 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/6] ARM: sched: clear SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN Vincent Guittot
2013-03-23 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks Preeti U Murthy
2013-03-25 9:58 ` Vincent Guittot
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