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From: Michael wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] sched: Avoid select_idle_sibling() for wake_affine(.sync=true)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:26:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5243E1B5.4080409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380179397.7525.45.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On 09/26/2013 03:09 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Ok, a double-edged sword I see :)
>>
>> May be we can wave it carefully here, give the discount to a bigger
>> scope not the sync cpu, for example:
>>
>> 	sg1				sg2
>> 	cpu0	cpu1	cpu2	cpu3	cpu4	cpu5	cpu6	cpu7
>> 	waker	idle	idle	idle	idle	idle	idle	idle
>>
>> If it's sync wakeup on cpu0 (only waker), and the sg is wide enough,
>> which means one cpu is not so influencial, then suppose cpu0 to be idle
>> could be more safe, also prefer sg1 than sg2 is more likely to be right.
>>
>> And we can still choose idle-cpu at final step, like cpu1 in this case,
>> to avoid the risk that waker don't get off as it said.
>>
>> The key point is to reduce the influence of sync, trust a little but not
>> totally ;-)
> 
> What we need is a dirt cheap way to fairly accurately predict overlap
> potential (todo: write omniscience().. patent, buy planet).

Agree, solutions for such cases are usually incredible ;-)

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
> -Mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25  7:53 [RFC][PATCH] sched: Avoid select_idle_sibling() for wake_affine(.sync=true) Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-25  8:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26  2:50   ` Michael wang
2013-09-26  3:41     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26  5:12       ` Michael wang
2013-09-26  5:34         ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26  6:15           ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26  6:32           ` Michael wang
2013-09-26  7:09             ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26  7:26               ` Michael wang [this message]
2013-09-26  9:58   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-26 10:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-26 10:55     ` Paul Turner
2013-09-26 11:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-26 11:39         ` Paul Turner
2013-09-26 14:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-26 15:43             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-26 13:46     ` Mike Galbraith
2013-09-26 15:09     ` Michael wang
2013-09-26 15:44       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-27  1:19         ` Michael wang

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