wake_wide mechanism clarification

[Joel Fernandes]

Dear Mike,

I wanted your kind help to understand your patch "sched: beef up
wake_wide()"[1] which is a modification to the original patch from
Michael Wang [2].

In particular, I didn't following the following comment:
" to shared cache, we look for a minimum 'flip' frequency of llc_size
in one partner, and a factor of lls_size higher frequency in the
other."

Why are wanting the master's flip frequency to be higher than the
slaves by the factor?

The code here is written as:

if (slave < factor || master < slave * factor)
   return 0;

However I think we should just do (with my current and probably wrong
understanding):

if (slave < factor || master < factor)
    return 0;

Basically, I didn't follow why we multiply the slave's flips with
llc_size. That makes it sound like the master has to have way more
flips than the slave to return 0 from wake_wide. Could you maybe give
an example to clarify? Thanks a lot for your help,

I am also CC'ing Peter and some ARM folks for the discussion (and also
Jocef who was discuss it with Mike on the mailing list few years ago).

Thanks,
Joel

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6787941/
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/4/20