Re: [PATCH v2] sched/fair: check for idle core

[Mel Gorman]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 03:15:50PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Fixes: 11f10e5420f6 ("sched/fair: Use load instead of runnable load in wakeup path")
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

While not a universal win, it was mostly a win or neutral. In few cases
where there was a problem, one benchmark I'm a bit suspicious of generally
as occasionally it generates bad results for unknown and unpredictable
reasons. In another, it was very machine specific and the differences
were small in absolte time rather than relative time. Other tests on the
same machine were fine so overall;

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs