Re: [PATCH v3 08/20] sched/fair: load balance only among preferred CPUs

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 06:37:48PM +0530, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
> Hi Prateek.
> 
> On 6/4/26 11:39 AM, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> > Hello Shrikanth,
> > 
> > ... just moving set_cpu_preferred() into sched_cpu_activate() and
> > sched_cpu_deactivate() instead of doing it at set_cpu_online().
> > 
> 
> Ah ok. Will move it there. I think this should be ok.

Right, such that preferred is a strict subset of active.

  preferred ⊆ active ⊆ online ⊆ present ⊆ possible