From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf/core: Small event scheduling changes
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:47:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091110094730.GC5255@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091110094143.GB5255@nowhere>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:41:45AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> With this draft, it makes the pinned priority more consistent
> with its purpose but it doesn't yet bring the full pinned over
> flexible priority determinism.
>
> It does apply the priority in tick time, while we round robin.
> I did that there first so that it covers most of the events
> rescheduling actions and also it doesn't bring much more
> overhead over the previous layout (in theory), it just changes
> the order.
>
> I'll also try to expand the priority constraint each time we
> sched in a task: when we schedule a new task that belongs to
> a new context, we don't schedule out/in the cpu context but
> that will be needed if we want the full priority determinism.
To lower the overhead at non-tick time, we could even just reschedule
the cpu flexible events. Anyway...
>
> Anyway, I'll do that progressively.
>
> Frederic.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-08 20:13 [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf/core: Small event scheduling changes Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-08 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] perf/core: split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-08 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] perf/core: Optimize a bit rotate_ctx() Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-08 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] perf/core: Split up pinned and non pinned processing Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-10 5:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-10 9:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-08 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] perf/core: Schedule every pinned events before the the non-pinned Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-10 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-10 10:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-10 5:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] perf/core: Small event scheduling changes Ingo Molnar
2009-11-10 9:41 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-10 9:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
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