Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/5] sched: nominate preferred wakeup cpu

[Vaidyanathan Srinivasan]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-11-11 14:43:39]:

> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 00:03 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> > When the system utilisation is low and more cpus are idle,
> > then the process waking up from sleep should prefer to
> > wakeup an idle cpu from semi-idle cpu package (multi core
> > package) rather than a completely idle cpu package which
> > would waste power.
> > 
> > Use the sched_mc balance logic in find_busiest_group() to
> > nominate a preferred wakeup cpu.
> > 
> > This info can be sored in appropriate sched_domain, but
> > updating this info in all copies of sched_domain is not
> > practical.  For now lets try with a per-cpu variable
> > pointing to a common storage in partition sched domain
> > attribute.  Global variable may not work in partitioned
> > sched domain case.
> 
> Would it make sense to place the preferred_wakeup_cpu stuff in the
> root_domain structure we already have?

Yep, that will be a good idea.  We can get to root_domain from each
CPU's rq and we can get rid of the per-cpu pointers for
preferred_wakeup_cpu as well. I will change the implementation and
re-post.

Thanks,
Vaidy

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