Re: [PATCH] sched: wake-affine throttle

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 22 2013 - 06:35:31 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK,.. Ingo said that pipe-test was the original motivation for
> wake_affine() and since that's currently broken to pieces due to
> select_idle_sibling() is there still a benefit to having it at all?
>
> Can anybody find any significant regression when simply killing
> wake_affine()?

I'd suggest doing a patch that does:

s/SD_WAKE_AFFINE/0*SD_WAKE_AFFINE

in all the relevant toplogy.h files, but otherwise keep the logic in
place. That way it's easy to revert.

Thanks,

Ingo
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