Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] sched: Clean-ups and asymmetric cpu capacity support
From: Morten Rasmussen
Date: Tue Jul 12 2016 - 10:38:07 EST
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:25:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:33:54AM +0100, Morten Rasmussen 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?
>
> So no fundamental objections, just these few issues that need sorting.
Thanks for the review. I will put together a v3.