Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] steal tasks to improve CPU utilization

[Steven Sistare]

On 11/6/2018 12:52 PM, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> On 05/11/2018 20:07, Steve Sistare wrote:
> [...]
>> The patch series is based on kernel 4.19.0-rc7.  It compiles, boots, and
>> runs with/without each of CONFIG_SCHED_SMT, CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG,
>> and CONFIG_PREEMPT.  It runs without error with CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT +
>> CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG + CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES +
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK + CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP.  CPU hot plug and CPU
>> bandwidth control were tested.
>>
> 
> There are some conflicts with misfit on 4.20-rc1 (nothing major, just that
> misfit logic appeared where the stealing logic wants to land), and git
> gets lost after a few conflict resolutions.
> 
> It's fine for testing on 4.19 - I just apply the misfit series then merge
> a branch with the steal patches to fix it all at once - but it makes
> playing around with 4.20-rc* more tedious.
> 

Thanks for powering through the merge.  I will update the patch for 4.20.

- Steve