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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: ego@in.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/8] sched: update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251890706.7547.150.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090902111759.GB3817@in.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 16:47 +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> > +     if (local_group) {
> >               balance_cpu = group_first_cpu(group);
> > +             if (balance_cpu == this_cpu)
> > +                     update_sched_power(sd);
> > +     }
> 
> I guess the intention of this check is to ensure that the cpu_power for
> the group of sd is updated only by a specific member of the group and
> that would ideally be the first member of the group.
> 
> Thus, this check has more to do with this_cpu being the
> group_first_cpu() than this_cpu being the balance_cpu. Correct ?

Right, so the load-balancer walks the sd tree in the fashion that only
the first cpu of the domain goes up a level. So I made that cpu also
aggregate the new cpu-power.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-02 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01  8:34 [RFC][PATCH 0/8] load-balancing and cpu_power -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8] sched: restore __cpu_power to a straight sum of power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  8:54   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Restore " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8] sched: SD_PREFER_SIBLING Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  8:55   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8] sched: update the cpu_power sum during load-balance Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-02 11:17   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-02 11:25     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-09-04  8:55   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Update " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8] sched: add smt_gain Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-02 11:22   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-02 11:26     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  8:55   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Add smt_gain tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8] sched: dynamic cpu_power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-02 11:24   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-04  8:55   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Implement " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8] sched: scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  8:56   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Scale " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8] sched: try to deal with low capacity Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-02 11:29   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-04  8:56   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Try " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01  8:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8] sched: remove reciprocal for cpu_power Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-03 12:12   ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-09-04  8:56   ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Remove " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-02 10:57 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8] load-balancing and cpu_power -v2 Gautham R Shenoy
2009-09-03 12:10 ` Andreas Herrmann
2009-09-03 13:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-04  7:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-04  9:27     ` [crash] " Ingo Molnar
2009-09-04 10:25       ` [tip:sched/balancing] sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash tip-bot for Ingo Molnar

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