From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753908AbbE1LtZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 07:49:25 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:34499 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753464AbbE1LtR (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 07:49:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 13:49:13 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Josef Bacik , riel@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE Message-ID: <20150528114912.GA29228@gmail.com> References: <1432761736-22093-1-git-send-email-jbacik@fb.com> <20150528102127.GD3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <1432811789.3237.138.camel@novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1432811789.3237.138.camel@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > In fact, select_idle_sibling() is already too expensive on current > > server hardware (far too damn many cpus in a LLC domain). > > Yup. I've played with rate limiting motion per task because of that. > Packages have gotten way too damn big. What's the biggest you've seen? Thanks, Ingo