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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:28:02 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC V2 2/2] sched/fair: Fallback to sched-idle CPU if idle CPU
 isn't found
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On 25-04-19, 15:07, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> We target for an idle CPU in select_idle_sibling() to run the next task,
> but in case we don't find idle CPUs it is better to pick a CPU which
> will run the task the soonest, for performance reason. A CPU which isn't
> idle but has only SCHED_IDLE activity queued on it should be a good
> target based on this criteria as any normal fair task will most likely
> preempt the currently running SCHED_IDLE task immediately. In fact,
> choosing a SCHED_IDLE CPU shall give better results as it should be able
> to run the task sooner than an idle CPU (which requires to be woken up
> from an idle state).
> 
> This patch updates the fast path to fallback to a sched-idle CPU if the
> idle CPU isn't found, the slow path can be updated separately later.
> 
> Following is the order in which select_idle_sibling() picks up next CPU
> to run the task now:
> 
> 1. idle_cpu(target) OR sched_idle_cpu(target)
> 2. idle_cpu(prev) OR sched_idle_cpu(prev)
> 3. idle_cpu(recent_used_cpu) OR sched_idle_cpu(recent_used_cpu)
> 4. idle core(sd)
> 5. idle_cpu(sd)
> 6. sched_idle_cpu(sd)
> 7. idle_cpu(p) - smt
> 8. sched_idle_cpu(p)- smt
> 
> Though the policy can be tweaked a bit if we want to have different
> priorities.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Hi Peter,

I was looking to send V3 with the changes you suggested for the patch 1/2, are
there any changes that I should be doing in this patch along with it ?

-- 
viresh