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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: pjt@google.com, paul.mckenney@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, venki@google.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, robin.randhawa@arm.com,
	Steve.Bannister@arm.com, Liviu.Dudau@arm.com,
	charles.garcia-tobin@arm.com, Arvind.Chauhan@arm.com,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/7] workqueue: Add helpers to schedule work on any cpu
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:13:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130328181332.GD14088@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130321182937.GB20500@htj.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:29:37AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Yes, I actually like that part a lot although I do wish the idle check
> was inlined.
> 
> What I'm wondering is whether the kinda out-of-band decision via
> sched_select_cpu() is justified given that it can and is likely to go
> through full scheduling decision anyway.  For timer, we don't have
> that, so it makes sense.  For work items, it's a bit different.
> 
> To rephrase, *if* the scheduler can't already make proper decisions
> regarding power consumption on an idlish system, maybe it can be
> improved to do so?  It could as well be that this CPU selection is
> special enough that it's just better to keep it separate as this
> patchset proposes.  This is something up to the scheduler people.
> Peter, Ingo, what do you guys think?

Ping.  Peter, Ingo?

Viresh, would it be difficult to make another measurement of the same
workload with the said workqueues converted to unbound?  I think that
would at least provide a nice reference point.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-28 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-18 15:23 [PATCH V3 0/7] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 1/7] sched: Create sched_select_cpu() to give preferred CPU for power saving Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:39   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-18 15:44     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:57       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-03-19  5:15         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19 12:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-03-19 12:52     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19 13:22       ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 2/7] timer: hrtimer: Don't check idle_cpu() before calling get_nohz_timer_target() Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 3/7] workqueue: Add helpers to schedule work on any cpu Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19  5:15   ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19 13:23     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-21  0:12   ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-21 10:57     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-21 18:29       ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-28 18:13         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-03-29  2:39           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-29  7:27           ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-29 17:40             ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-29 17:56               ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-30  3:30               ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 4/7] PHYLIB: queue " Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 17:33   ` David Miller
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 5/7] mmc: " Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19  7:58   ` Ulf Hansson
2013-03-22 17:09   ` Chris Ball
2013-03-22 17:26   ` Chris Ball
2013-03-22 17:27     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-22 17:30       ` Chris Ball
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 6/7] block: " Viresh Kumar
2013-03-22 15:05   ` Jens Axboe
2013-03-23  6:44     ` Viresh Kumar
2013-03-18 15:23 ` [PATCH V3 7/7] fbcon: " Viresh Kumar
2013-03-19  5:00 ` [PATCH V3 0/7] Create sched_select_cpu() and use it for workqueues Viresh Kumar

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