Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:24:09 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
        Dietmar Eggemann <Dietmar.Eggemann@arm.com>, yuyang.du@intel.com,
        mturquette@baylibre.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
        Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@arm.com>, sgurrappadi@nvidia.com,
        pang.xunlei@zte.com.cn, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFCv5 PATCH 30/46] sched: Add cpu capacity awareness to wakeup
 balancing
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> 
> This patch adds capacity awareness to find_idlest_{group,queue} (used by
> SD_BALANCE_{FORK,EXEC}) such that groups/cpus that can accommodate the
> waking task based on task utilization are preferred. In addition, wakeup
> of existing tasks (SD_BALANCE_WAKE) is sent through
> find_idlest_{group,queue} if the task doesn't fit the capacity of the
> previous cpu to allow it to escape (override wake_affine) when
> necessary instead of relying on periodic/idle/nohz_idle balance to
> eventually sort it out.
> 

That's policy not guided by the energy model.. Also we need something
clever for the wakeup balancing, the current stuff all stinks :/
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