Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] sched: simplify the select_task_rq_fair()

[Mike Galbraith]

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 14:32 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: 
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 11:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > The changes look clean and reasoable, 
> 
> I don't necessarily agree, note that O(n^2) storage requirement that
> Michael failed to highlight ;-)

(yeah, I mentioned that needs to shrink.. a lot)

> > any ideas exactly *why* it speeds up?
> 
> That is indeed the most interesting part.. There's two parts to
> select_task_rq_fair(), the 'regular' affine wakeup path, and the
> fork/exec find_idlest_goo() path. At the very least we need to quantify
> which of these two parts contributes most to the speedup.
> 
> In the power balancing discussion we already noted that the
> find_idlest_goo() is in need of attention.

Yup, even little stuff like break off the search when load is zero..
unless someone is planning on implementing anti-idle 'course ;-)

-Mike


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