Re: [PATCH RESEND] sched: prefer an idle cpu vs an idle sibling for BALANCE_WAKE

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 08:15:17 EST


On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 13:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:21 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, select_idle_sibling() is already too expensive on current
> > > server hardware (far too damn many cpus in a LLC domain).
> >
> > Yup. I've played with rate limiting motion per task because of that.
> > Packages have gotten way too damn big.
>
> What's the biggest you've seen?

15 cores so far. It'll no doubt grow.

-Mike

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