Re: [question] sched: idle_avg and migration latency

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>]

On 12/11/2013 02:31 AM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>
>> That has changed a little recently.  I originally slammed avg_idle
>> itself straight to max to ensure that a bursty load would idle balance,
>> and not use stale data.  If you start cross core switching at high
>> frequency, you'll still shut idle balancing quickly.
> 
> Ok, thanks for the explanation.
> 
> I think I am a bit puzzled with the 'idle_avg' name. I am guessing the
> semantic of this variable is "how long this cpu has been idle".
> 
> The idle duration, with the no_hz, could be long, several seconds if the
> work queues have been migrated and if the timer affinity is set to
> another cpu. So if we fall in this case and there is a burst of activity
> + micro-idle and idle_avg is not leverage to max, it will stay high
> during an amount of time, thus pulling tasks at each micro idle period,
> right ?

yes, I think so.

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Thanks
    Alex