From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Trinabh Gupta <trinabh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
arjan@linux.intel.com, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
venki@google.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301577536.4859.249.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103302203490.1920@x980>
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:17 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
>
> Moorestown is already an example of an asymmetric system,
> since its deepest c-state is available on cpu0, but not on cpu1.
> So it needs different tables for each cpu.
wtf are these hardware guys smoking and how the heck are we supposed to
schedule on such a machine? Prefer to keep cpu1 busy while idling cpu0?
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
ak@linux.intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, venki@google.com,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
arjan@linux.intel.com, Trinabh Gupta <trinabh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301577536.4859.249.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103302203490.1920@x980>
On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 22:17 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
>
> Moorestown is already an example of an asymmetric system,
> since its deepest c-state is available on cpu0, but not on cpu1.
> So it needs different tables for each cpu.
wtf are these hardware guys smoking and how the heck are we supposed to
schedule on such a machine? Prefer to keep cpu1 busy while idling cpu0?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-22 12:32 [RFC PATCH V4 0/5] cpuidle: Cleanup pm_idle and include driver/cpuidle.c in-kernel Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-22 12:32 ` [RFC PATCH V4 1/5] cpuidle: Remove pm_idle pointer for x86 Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 1:00 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-23 10:10 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-22 12:32 ` [RFC PATCH V4 2/5] cpuidle: list based cpuidle driver registration and selection Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 2:59 ` Len Brown
2011-03-23 9:22 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 20:51 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 4:41 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 14:13 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:52 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-25 7:13 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 7:13 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 7:05 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 15:35 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-31 2:25 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 2:25 ` Len Brown
2011-03-22 12:33 ` [RFC PATCH V4 3/5] cpuidle: default idle driver for x86 Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 3:13 ` Len Brown
2011-03-23 9:31 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:32 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-22 12:33 ` [RFC PATCH V4 4/5] cpuidle: driver for xen Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-22 14:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-22 14:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-23 9:57 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 7:18 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 12:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-24 12:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-03-25 7:19 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 14:43 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-03-25 14:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-03-25 14:38 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-03-31 2:02 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 2:02 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 21:26 ` [Xen-devel] " Len Brown
2011-03-31 21:26 ` Len Brown
2011-03-31 22:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-04-01 3:03 ` Len Brown
2011-04-01 3:03 ` Len Brown
2011-03-22 12:33 ` [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 1:14 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-23 10:25 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-23 20:32 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 14:28 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 16:21 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-25 7:24 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 18:01 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-03-31 2:17 ` cpuidle asymmetry (was Re: [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm) Len Brown
2011-03-31 13:18 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-03-31 13:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 4:09 ` Len Brown
2011-04-01 8:15 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-01 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-04-03 16:18 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-01 14:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-04 14:32 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-05 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-05 15:48 ` Dipankar Sarma
2011-04-01 7:02 ` Trinabh Gupta
2011-03-24 4:27 ` [RFC PATCH V4 5/5] cpuidle: cpuidle driver for apm Len Brown
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