Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 00/14] sched: packing tasks

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 11:33:45AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

tl;dr :-) Still trying to wrap my head around how to do that weird
topology Vincent raised..

> Question for Peter/Ingo: do you want the scheduler to decide on which
> C-state a CPU should be in or we still leave this to a cpuidle
> layer/driver?

I think the can leave most of that in a driver; right along with how to
prod the hardware to actually get into that state.

I think the most important parts are what is now 'generic' code; stuff
that guestimates the idle-time and so forth.

I think the scheduler simply wants to say: we expect to go idle for X
ns, we want a guaranteed wakeup latency of Y ns -- go do your thing.

I think you also raised the point in that we do want some feedback as to
the cost of waking up particular cores to better make decisions on which
to wake. That is indeed so.
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