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From: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] sched/fair: prefer a CPU in the "lowest" idle state
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:24:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510A2A50.1090207@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pq0lu7ew.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>

On 01/31/2013 03:40 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:30:02 +0800, Michael Wang wrote:
>> On 01/31/2013 02:58 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>> But AFAIK the number of states in cpuidle is usually less than 10 so maybe
>>> we can change the weight then, but there's no promise...
>>
>> And I just got another case we should take care:
>>
>> 	group 0		cpu 0			cpu 1
>> 			power index 8		power index 8
>>
>>
>> 	group 1		cpu 2			cpu 3
>> 			power index 0		load 15
>>
>> so load of group 0 is 16 and group 1 is 15, but group 0 is better...
> 
> Maybe it's not.  The cpus in group 0 are in a lower power state so that
> there will be a benefit to select cpu 2 from the power' PoV IMHO.  Also
> such a low power state has a longer exit latency so that we should
> choose cpu2 to get a better performance and it's the basic idea of this
> patchset I believe.

Well, this case is just to notify that, we may face the comparison
between load and index, not between index and index, I just doubt there
won't be a rule which could take care both, besides, comparison between
load and index is strange...

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-31  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30 21:19 [RFC] Consider CPU idle state while choosing a new CPU Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-01-30 21:19 ` [RFC 1/2] cpuidle: trace state of the CPU Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-01-31  5:21   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-02-02 17:35     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-01-30 21:19 ` [RFC 2/2] sched/fair: prefer a CPU in the "lowest" idle state Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-01-31  2:12   ` Michael Wang
2013-01-31  5:16     ` Namhyung Kim
2013-01-31  6:39       ` Michael Wang
2013-01-31  6:58         ` Namhyung Kim
2013-01-31  7:30           ` Michael Wang
2013-01-31  7:40             ` Namhyung Kim
2013-01-31  8:24               ` Michael Wang [this message]
2013-01-31  8:45                 ` Michael Wang
2013-01-31  8:57                   ` Michael Wang
2013-02-01  8:53                     ` Namhyung Kim
2013-02-02 17:50     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2013-02-04  3:01       ` Michael Wang

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