Re: [PATCH 4/4] sched/fair: Use a recently used CPU as an idle candidate and the basis for SIS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 08:26:02 EST


On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:15:44PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 12:57 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:50:54PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> > > Mel, what hardware are you testing this on?
> >
> > The primary one was a single socket skylake machine with 8 threads (HT
> > enabled).
>
> I took it for a spin in a 2 x Gold 6152 box.

Can you translate that marketing speak for a simpleton like me? That's
what we should've called SKL-EP, right?