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From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	morten.rasmussen@arm.com, kernel-team <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:30:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433345444.3343.21.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433341448.1495.4.camel@twins>

On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 16:24 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 10:12 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> > There is a policy vs mechanism thing here. Ingo and Peter
> > are worried about the overhead in the mechanism of finding
> > an idle CPU.  Your measurements show that the policy of
> > finding an idle CPU is the correct one.
> 
> For his workload; I'm sure I can find a workload where it hurts.
> 
> In fact, I'm fairly sure Mike knows one from the top of his head, seeing
> how he's the one playing about trying to shrink that idle search :-)

Like anything where scheduling latency doesn't heavily dominate.  Even
if searching were free, bounces aren't, even for the very light.

	-Mike


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-03 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 21:22 [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE Josef Bacik
2015-05-28  3:46 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28  9:49   ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-05-28 10:57     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 11:48       ` Morten Rasmussen
2015-05-28 11:49         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 10:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 11:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 14:27     ` Josef Bacik
2015-05-29 21:03     ` Josef Bacik
2015-05-30  3:55       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-01 19:38       ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-01 20:42         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-01 21:03           ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-02 17:12           ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-03 14:12             ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-03 14:24               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-06-03 14:49                 ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-03 15:30                 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2015-06-03 15:57                   ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-03 16:53                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-03 17:16                       ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-03 17:43                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-03 20:34                           ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-04  4:52                             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-01 22:15         ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 20:33     ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-12  3:42       ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-12  5:35     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-17 18:06       ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-18  0:55         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-06-18  3:46           ` Josef Bacik
2015-06-18  4:12             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-02 17:44               ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-03  6:40                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-03  9:29                   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-04 15:57                   ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-05  7:17                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-06  5:13                       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-06 14:34                         ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-06 18:36                           ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-06 19:41                             ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-07  4:01                               ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-07  9:43                                 ` [patch] " Mike Galbraith
2015-07-07 13:40                                   ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-07 15:24                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-07 17:06                                   ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-08  6:13                                     ` [patch] sched: beef up wake_wide() Mike Galbraith
2015-07-09 13:26                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-09 14:07                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-09 14:46                                           ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-10  5:19                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-10 13:41                                           ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-10 20:59                                           ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-11  3:11                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-13 13:53                                               ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-14 11:19                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 13:49                                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-14 14:07                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 14:17                                                     ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-14 15:04                                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-14 15:39                                                         ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-14 16:01                                                           ` Josef Bacik
2015-07-14 17:59                                                             ` Mike Galbraith
2015-07-15 17:11                                                               ` Josef Bacik
2015-08-03 17:07                                                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Beef " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 11:16   ` [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 11:49     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-28 12:15       ` Mike Galbraith
2015-05-28 12:19         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-05-28 12:29           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-05-28 15:22           ` David Ahern
2015-05-28 11:55 ` Srikar Dronamraju

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