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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
	mingo@kernel.org, george.mccollister@gmail.com,
	ktkhai@parallels.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: wake up task on prev_cpu if not in SD_WAKE_AFFINE domain with cpu
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:16:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536D1B6D.8060004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399658123.5187.2.camel@marge.simpson.net>

On 05/09/2014 01:55 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:24 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> On 05/09/2014 11:24 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>>> If no ->flags & SD_BALANCE_WAKE is encountered during traversal, sd
>>> remains NULL, we fall through to return prev_cpu.
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>> We do fall through, but into this loop:
>
>>           while (sd) {

You are right. That code is a little hard to follow...

That leaves the big question: do we want to fall back to
prev_cpu if it is not idle, and it has an idle sibling,
or would it be better to find an idle sibling of prev_cpu
when we wake up a task?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02  4:42 [PATCH RFC/TEST] sched: make sync affine wakeups work Rik van Riel
2014-05-02  5:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  5:41   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  5:58   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  6:08     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-02  6:36       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  6:51         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  6:13 ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02  6:30   ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-02  7:37     ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02 10:56       ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-02 11:27         ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-02 12:51           ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]           ` <5363B793.9010208@redhat.com>
2014-05-06 11:54             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 20:19               ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 20:39                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 23:46                   ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09  2:20                   ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09  5:27                     ` [PATCH] sched: wake up task on prev_cpu if not in SD_WAKE_AFFINE domain with cpu Rik van Riel
2014-05-09  6:04                       ` [PATCH] sched: clean up select_task_rq_fair conditionals and indentation Rik van Riel
2014-05-09  7:34                       ` [PATCH] sched: wake up task on prev_cpu if not in SD_WAKE_AFFINE domain with cpu Mike Galbraith
2014-05-09 14:22                         ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 15:24                           ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-09 15:24                             ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-09 17:55                               ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-09 18:16                                 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-05-10  3:54                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-13 14:08                                     ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-14  4:08                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-14 15:40                                         ` [PATCH] sched: call select_idle_sibling when not affine_sd Rik van Riel
2014-05-14 15:45                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-19 13:08                                           ` [tip:sched/core] " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2014-05-22 12:27                                           ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Call select_idle_sibling() " tip-bot for Rik van Riel
2014-05-04 11:44     ` [PATCH RFC/TEST] sched: make sync affine wakeups work Preeti Murthy
2014-05-04 12:04       ` Mike Galbraith
2014-05-05  4:38         ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-04 12:41       ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-05  4:50         ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-05  6:43           ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-05-05 11:28           ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 13:26           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 13:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-06 20:20           ` Rik van Riel
2014-05-06 20:41             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-07 12:17               ` Ingo Molnar
2014-05-06 11:56       ` Peter Zijlstra

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