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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	pjt@google.com, paul.mckenney@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	tj@kernel.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, venki@google.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com,
	linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org,
	pdsw-power-team@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:35:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1353951352.6276.43.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121126170358.GE2474@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 09:03 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:


> If I understand correctly (though also suffering turkey OD), the idea is
> to offload work to more energy-efficient CPUs.

This is determined by a CPU that isn't running the idle task? Is it
because a CPU that just woke up may be running at a lower freq, and thus
not as efficient? But pushing off to another CPU may cause cache misses
as well. Wouldn't that also be a factor in efficiencies, if a CPU is
stalled waiting for memory to be loaded?

I should also ask the obvious. Has these patches shown real world
efficiencies or is this just a theory? Do these patches actually improve
battery life when applied?

Just asking.

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-06 10:34 [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers Viresh Kumar
     [not found] ` <cover.1352196505.git.viresh.kumar-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-06 10:38   ` [PATCH V2 Resend 1/4] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38   ` [PATCH V2 Resend 2/4] timer: hrtimer: Don't check idle_cpu() before calling get_nohz_timer_target() Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38   ` [PATCH V2 Resend 4/4] timer: Migrate running timer Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:47     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-03-20 15:13       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-09 14:52         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-04-24 11:22           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-13  9:19             ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-13 10:35               ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-05-22  8:34                 ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-22  9:06                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-22  9:23                     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-05-31 10:49                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-06-18  4:51                     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-07-24  9:17                       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-08-07  9:55                         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-10-04 12:39                           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-10-23  5:55                             ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-06 10:38 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 3/4] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead of current one Viresh Kumar
     [not found]   ` <ad25c731a6ca1bd1269555245952f05c856a9759.1352196505.git.viresh.kumar-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-26 17:15     ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-27  5:19       ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 12:54         ` Vincent Guittot
     [not found]         ` <CAKohpom9=K976NmyFWtXx2UQyRcLAqsoGw-5AaqXRpSL6uxP_g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-01-04 11:11           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-04 15:09             ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-07  9:58               ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 13:28                 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-07 17:59                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 22:29                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-08  4:03                       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-07 15:04                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-07 15:40                   ` Amit Kucheria
2013-01-07 18:07                   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-09 18:49                     ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-10  5:04                       ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:26   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 13:48     ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-27 13:59       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 14:55         ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-27 15:04           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27 15:35             ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-26 15:00 ` [PATCH V2 Resend 0/4] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues and timers Viresh Kumar
2012-11-26 16:40   ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found]     ` <1353948027.6276.38.camel-f9ZlEuEWxVcJvu8Pb33WZ0EMvNT87kid@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-26 17:03       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-26 17:35         ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
     [not found]           ` <1353951352.6276.43.camel-f9ZlEuEWxVcJvu8Pb33WZ0EMvNT87kid@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-26 19:03             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-11-26 19:17               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-27  6:25     ` Viresh Kumar

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