From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] sched: pack small tasks
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:13:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1364393634.5053.71.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130327111855.GI801@MacBook-Pro.local>
On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 11:18 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:00:20AM +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 09:54 +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > > It's not mandatory to have little cores on low numbers even if it's
> > > advised
> >
> > ARGH!
>
> I haven't followed this thread closely, so just a random comment from
> me. An argument from some is that they want to boot Linux on the big CPU
> to be quicker. The most convenient is to have the big CPU at 0.
I suppose that's almost sensible ;-) I just despair at the amount of
variation that's allowed.
I'm guessing that swapping cpus in the bootloader or someplace really
early is equally hard in that we (Linux) assume we boot on cpu 0 or
something like that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ 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
2013-03-27 8:54 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 9:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-27 11:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-03-27 14:13 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-03-27 16:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-03-27 17:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-03-27 17:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-03-27 17:20 ` Vincent Guittot
2013-03-27 18:01 ` 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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