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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	smuckle@quicinc.com, khilman@ti.com, Robin.Randhawa@arm.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, thebigcorporation@gmail.com,
	venki@google.com, panto@antoniou-consulting.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	paul.brett@intel.com, pdeschrijver@nvidia.com, pjt@google.com,
	efault@gmx.de, fweisbec@gmail.com, geoff@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	amit.kucheria@linaro.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linaro-sched-sig@lists.linaro.org,
	Morten Rasmussen <Morten.Rasmussen@arm.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:19:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515151958.GD2461@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfTPtDrZ-tfC81jnxwpB+DCtmxhU+VfoYbtSBr8MkFt+P8JcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 05:05:47PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 15 May 2012 15:00, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 14:57 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> >>
> >> Not sure that nobody cares but it's much more that scheduler,
> >> load_balance and sched_mc are sensible enough that it's difficult to
> >> ensure that a modification will not break everything for someone
> >> else.
> >
> > Thing is, its already broken, there's nothing else to break :-)
> 
> sched_mc is the only power-aware knob in the current scheduler. It's
> far from being perfect but it seems to work on some ARM platform at
> least. You mentioned at the scheduler mini-summit that we need a
> cleaner replacement and everybody has agreed on that point. Is anybody
> working on it yet ? and can we discuss at Plumber's what this
> replacement would look like ?

Hello, Vincent,

If I understand the patch from a first glance, Peter is doing what
everyone agreed to at the scheduler minisummit back in February.
>From the notes from that meeting at:

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/PowerManagement/Doc/HMPscheduling

See the line reading "Remove sched_mc. [Peter Zijlstra]".

Or am I confused about what Peter's patch does?

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11 16:16 Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP Vincent Guittot
2012-05-11 16:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-11 16:38   ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15  8:41     ` Juri Lelli
2012-05-15  0:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-05-15  8:02 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15  8:34   ` mou Chen
2012-05-15  9:07     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15  9:17       ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-05-15 10:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 11:35           ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-05-15 11:58             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 12:32               ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-05-15 12:59                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-19 14:58               ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 20:26             ` valdis.kletnieks
2012-05-15 20:33               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16 12:08               ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-05-15 12:23   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 12:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 12:57     ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15 13:00       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 15:05         ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15 15:19           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-05-15 15:27             ` Vincent Guittot
2012-05-15 15:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 15:45             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16 18:30             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-19 17:08               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-19 22:55                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-22  2:38                   ` Chen
2012-05-22  5:14                     ` Chen
2012-05-30  7:20                       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 15:03                     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 15:43                       ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 15:50                         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 15:56                           ` Joe Perches
2012-05-23 15:59                             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-29 18:17                           ` [PATCH] printk: Shrink printk_sched buffer size, eliminate it when !CONFIG_PRINTK Joe Perches
2012-06-05 16:04                             ` Joe Perches
2012-06-06  7:25                               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06  7:33                             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-06-06  7:42                               ` Joe Perches
2012-05-19 23:13                 ` Plumbers: Tweaking scheduler policy micro-conf RFP Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-19 23:22                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-21  7:16                   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-21 16:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 18:49             ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-05-16 19:40               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16 21:20             ` Vincent Guittot
     [not found]             ` <20120518161817.GE18312@e103034-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
2012-05-18 16:24               ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-05-18 16:39                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-18 16:46                 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2012-05-15 16:30           ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2012-05-15 18:13             ` Vincent Guittot

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