From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC 5/6] sched: pack the idle load balance
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:51:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50880774.5090605@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349595838-31274-6-git-send-email-vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
On Sunday 07 October 2012 01:13 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Look for an idle CPU close the pack buddy CPU whenever possible.
s/close/close to
> The goal is to prevent the wake up of a CPU which doesn't share the power
> line of the pack CPU
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro•org>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 6df53b5..f76acdc 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -5158,7 +5158,25 @@ static struct {
>
> static inline int find_new_ilb(int call_cpu)
> {
> + struct sched_domain *sd;
> int ilb = cpumask_first(nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
> + int buddy = per_cpu(sd_pack_buddy, call_cpu);
> +
> + /*
> + * If we have a pack buddy CPU, we try to run load balance on a CPU
> + * that is close to the buddy.
> + */
> + if (buddy != -1)
> + for_each_domain(buddy, sd) {
> + if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER)
> + continue;
Do you mean SD_SHARE_POWERLINE here ?
> +
> + ilb = cpumask_first_and(sched_domain_span(sd),
> + nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
> +
> + if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids)
> + break;
> + }
>
> if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids && idle_cpu(ilb))
> return ilb;
>
Can you please expand "idle CPU _close_ the pack buddy CPU" ?
Regards
santosh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-07 7:43 [RFC 0/6] sched: packing small tasks Vincent Guittot
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 1/6] Revert "sched: introduce temporary FAIR_GROUP_SCHED dependency for load-tracking" Vincent Guittot
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 2/6] sched: add a new SD SHARE_POWERLINE flag for sched_domain Vincent Guittot
2012-10-24 15:17 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-29 9:40 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-10-29 9:50 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-02 10:27 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 3/6] sched: pack small tasks Vincent Guittot
2012-10-24 15:20 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-29 13:12 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-02 10:53 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-11-09 16:46 ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-11-12 13:13 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-12 9:30 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-09 17:13 ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-11-12 13:51 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-20 14:28 ` Morten Rasmussen
2012-11-20 16:59 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 4/6] sched: secure access to other CPU statistics Vincent Guittot
2012-10-24 15:21 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-29 13:18 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 5/6] sched: pack the idle load balance Vincent Guittot
2012-10-24 15:21 ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2012-10-29 13:27 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-02 10:59 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-07 7:43 ` [RFC 6/6] ARM: sched: clear SD_SHARE_POWERLINE Vincent Guittot
2012-10-24 15:21 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-10-29 13:28 ` Vincent Guittot
2012-11-02 11:00 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-11-12 8:23 ` Vincent Guittot
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