Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] sched: Clean-ups and asymmetric cpu capacity support

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 08:44:52 EST


Hi Morten,

On 11 July 2016 at 10:33, Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:03:11PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The scheduler is currently not doing much to help performance on systems with
>> asymmetric compute capacities (read ARM big.LITTLE). This series improves the
>> situation with a few tweaks mainly to the task wake-up path that considers
>> compute capacity at wake-up and not just whether a cpu is idle for these
>> systems. This gives us consistent, and potentially higher, throughput in
>> partially utilized scenarios. SMP behaviour and performance should be
>> unaffected.
>
> Peter, Vincent: Any chance you have time for another look?

I will have a look but have only partial network access for now

Vincent
>
> Thanks,
> Morten