Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] sched/fair: rework the CFS load balance

[Dietmar Eggemann]

On 30.10.19 15:39, Phil Auld wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 02:03:15PM +0100 Vincent Guittot wrote:

[...]

>>> When you say slow versus fast wakeup paths what do you mean? I'm still
>>> learning my way around all this code.
>>
>> When task wakes up, we can decide to
>> - speedup the wakeup and shorten the list of cpus and compare only
>> prev_cpu vs this_cpu (in fact the group of cpu that share their
>> respective LLC). That's the fast wakeup path that is used most of the
>> time during a wakeup
>> - or start to find the idlest CPU of the system and scan all domains.
>> That's the slow path that is used for new tasks or when a task wakes
>> up a lot of other tasks at the same time

[...]

Is the latter related to wake_wide()? If yes, is the SD_BALANCE_WAKE
flag set on the sched domains on your machines? IMHO, otherwise those
wakeups are not forced into the slowpath (if (unlikely(sd))?

I had this discussion the other day with Valentin S. on #sched and we
were not sure how SD_BALANCE_WAKE is set on sched domains on
!SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY systems.