Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing
From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Oct 26 2016 - 06:30:13 EST
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Tim Chen wrote:
> We generalize the scheduler's asym packing to provide an ordering
> of the cpu beyond just the cpu number. This allows the use of the
> ASYM_PACKING scheduler machinery to move loads to preferred CPU in a
> sched domain. The preference is defined with the cpu priority
> given by arch_asym_cpu_priority(cpu).
>
> We also record the most preferred cpu in a sched group when
> we build the cpu's capacity for fast lookup of preferred cpu
> during load balancing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This SOB-chain is bogus. Same for all other patches.
Thanks,
tglx