Re: [PATCH 06/10] sched/fair: Clear the target CPU from the cpumask of CPUs searched

[Li, Aubrey]

On 2020/12/4 21:17, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 14:13, Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 12:30, Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 11:56:36AM +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>>>> The intent was that the sibling might still be an idle candidate. In
>>>>> the current draft of the series, I do not even clear this so that the
>>>>> SMT sibling is considered as an idle candidate. The reasoning is that if
>>>>> there are no idle cores then an SMT sibling of the target is as good an
>>>>> idle CPU to select as any.
>>>>
>>>> Isn't the purpose of select_idle_smt ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Only in part.
>>>
>>>> select_idle_core() looks for an idle core and opportunistically saves
>>>> an idle CPU candidate to skip select_idle_cpu. In this case this is
>>>> useless loops for select_idle_core() because we are sure that the core
>>>> is not idle
>>>>
>>>
>>> If select_idle_core() finds an idle candidate other than the sibling,
>>> it'll use it if there is no idle core -- it picks a busy sibling based
>>> on a linear walk of the cpumask. Similarly, select_idle_cpu() is not
>>
>> My point is that it's a waste of time to loop the sibling cpus of
>> target in select_idle_core because it will not help to find an idle
>> core. The sibling  cpus will then be check either by select_idle_cpu
>> of select_idle_smt
> 
> also, while looping the cpumask, the sibling cpus of not idle cpu are
> removed and will not be check
>

IIUC, select_idle_core and select_idle_cpu share the same cpumask(select_idle_mask)?
If the target's sibling is removed from select_idle_mask from select_idle_core(),
select_idle_cpu() will lose the chance to pick it up?

Thanks,
-Aubrey