Re: [RFC PATCH v2] sched/fair: select idle cpu from idle cpumask in sched domain

Phil Auld
2020-09-24T17:45:26Z

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 10:43:12AM -0700 Tim Chen wrote:
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> On 9/24/20 10:13 AM, Phil Auld wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:37:33AM -0700 Tim Chen wrote:
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> >> On 9/22/20 12:14 AM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
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> >>>>>> And a quick test with hackbench on my octo cores arm64 gives for 12
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> >> Vincent,
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> >> Is it octo (=10) or octa (=8) cores on a single socket for your system?
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> > In what Romance language does octo mean 10? :)
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> Got confused by october, the tenth month. :)

It used to be the eigth month ;)

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> Tim
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> >> The L2 is per core or there are multiple L2s shared among groups of cores?
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> >> Wonder if placing the threads within a L2 or not within
> >> an L2 could cause differences seen with Aubrey's test.
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> >> Tim
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