Re: [tip:sched/core] sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair()

Mike Galbraith
2009-11-04T20:37:36Z

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 19:33 +0000, tip-bot for Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Commit-ID: a1f84a3ab8e002159498814eaa7e48c33752b04b
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a1f84a3ab8e002159498814eaa7e48c33752b04b
> Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:35:38 +0100
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CommitDate: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:46:22 +0100
>
> sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair()
>
> When waking affine, check for an idle shared cache, and if
> found, wake to that CPU/sibling instead of the waker's CPU.

This one still wants some work. It's not playing well with 1b9508f.

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