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From: arjan@linux.intel.com (Arjan van de Ven)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] sched: pack the idle load balance
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:30:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5176A932.5050506@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5175F09E.1000304@intel.com>

On 4/22/2013 7:23 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
> Thanks you, Preeti and Vincent to talk the power aware scheduler for
> details! believe this open discussion is helpful to conduct a a more
> comprehensive solution. :)
>
>> Hi Preeti,
>>
>> I have had a look at Alex patches but i have some concerns with his patches
>> -There no notion of power domain which is quite important when we speak
>> about power saving IMHO. Packing tasks has got an interest if the idle
>> CPUs can reach a useful low power state independently from busy CPUs.
>> Architectures have different low power state capabilities which must be
>> taken into account. In addition, you can have system which have CPUs
>> with better power efficiency and this kind of system are not taken into
>> account.
>
> I agree with you on this point. and like what's you done to add new flag
> in sched domain.

For x86 we should not be setting such flag then; we don't have a way for some cpu packages to
go to an extra deep power state if they're completely idle.
(this afaik is true for both Intel and AMD)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 15:30 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
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 [this message]
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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