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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

  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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