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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] sched/fair: leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:58:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <542B277D.7050103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409844730-12273-3-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>

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On 09/04/2014 11:32 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The code in find_idlest_cpu() looks for the CPU with the smallest
> load. However, if multiple CPUs are idle, the first idle CPU is
> selected irrespective of the depth of its idle state.
> 
> Among the idle CPUs we should pick the one with with the shallowest
> idle state, or the latest to have gone idle if all idle CPUs are in
> the same state.  The later applies even when cpuidle is configured
> out.
> 
> This patch doesn't cover the following issues:

The main thing it does not cover is already running tasks that
get woken up again, since select_idle_sibling() covers everything
except for newly forked and newly executed tasks.

I am looking at adding similar logic to select_idle_sibling()

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 15:32 [PATCH v2 0/2] sched/idle : find the best idle CPU with cpuidle info Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-04 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] sched: let the scheduler see CPU idle states Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 17:37   ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-18 17:39     ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-18 23:15       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-18 18:32     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 23:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-18 23:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 18:30           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-04 15:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] sched/fair: leverage the idle state info when choosing the "idlest" cpu Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-05  7:52   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-09-18 23:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19  0:05   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19  4:49   ` Yao Dongdong
2014-09-30 21:58   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-09-30 23:15     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-10-02 17:15       ` [PATCH RFC] sched,idle: teach select_idle_sibling about idle states Rik van Riel
2014-10-03  6:04         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03  6:23         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03  7:50           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 13:05             ` Mike Galbraith
2014-10-03 14:28             ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-03 14:46               ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 15:37                 ` Rik van Riel
2014-10-09 16:04                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-03 18:52               ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] sched/idle : find the best idle CPU with cpuidle info Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 22:50   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-10 23:25     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 23:28       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-10 23:50       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-09-18  0:39   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-09-18 23:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-19 18:22       ` Nicolas Pitre

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