Re: [RFCv3 PATCH 43/48] sched: Introduce energy awareness into detach_tasks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 24 2015 - 11:25:24 EST


On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 06:31:20PM +0000, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> From: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx>
>
> Energy-aware load balancing does not rely on env->imbalance but instead it
> evaluates the system-wide energy difference for each task on the src rq by
> potentially moving it to the dst rq. If this energy difference is lesser
> than zero the task is actually moved from src to dst rq.

See this is another place where the parameterization makes perfect
sense; the weight imbalance or the energy difference is the 'same' thing
just a different unit.

All we really need is a task -> unit map to make this whole again.
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