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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 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: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:50:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <510D51CD.6020506@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5109D313.1020409@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 01/31/2013 03:12 AM, Michael Wang wrote:
> I'm not sure, but just concern about this case:
> 
> 	group 0		cpu 0			cpu 1
> 			least idle		4 task
> 
> 	group 1		cpu 2			cpu 3
> 			1 task			1 task
> 
> The previous logical will pick group 1 and now it will take group 0, and
> that cause more imbalance, doesn't it?

That depends on load of CPU 0 + 1 vs CPU 2 + 3. If the four tasks on
CPU1 are idle then the previous code should return group 0.
If the four tasks are running at 100% each then two of them should be
migrated to CPU0 and this point the idle state does not matter :)

> May be check that state in find_idlest_cpu() will be better?

You say to move this from find_idlest_group() to find_idlest_cpu()?

> Regards,
> Michael Wang

Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-02 17:50 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
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 [this message]
2013-02-04  3:01       ` Michael Wang

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