From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932306Ab1KQPii (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:38:38 -0500 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:39927 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932198Ab1KQPih (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:38:37 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+seWgw1oSsYWOix7fW0lu2kyHHyhyhnq12IPub5F WqjJX/PzoOufJ1 Subject: Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible From: Mike Galbraith To: Suresh Siddha Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel , Ingo Molnar , Paul Turner In-Reply-To: <1321495153.5100.7.camel@marge.simson.net> References: <1321350377.1421.55.camel@twins> <1321406062.16760.60.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> <1321435455.5072.64.camel@marge.simson.net> <1321468646.11680.2.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com> <1321495153.5100.7.camel@marge.simson.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:38:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1321544313.6308.25.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 02:59 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:37 -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote: > > It should be ok. Isn't it? > > Nope, wasn't ok. Because you can't get to again: with a single E5620 package, it having only SIBLING and MC domains. again: for_each_domain(target, sd) { if (!smt && (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER)) continue; if (!(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES)) { if (!smt) { smt = 1; goto again;