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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] sched/fair: narrow the sched_use_asym_prio checking
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On 1/17/24 2:27 PM, alexs@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
> 
> Current function doesn't match it's comments, in fact, core_idle
> checking is only meaningful with non-SMT.
> So make the function right.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
> To: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
> To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 96163ab69ae0..0a321f639c79 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -9741,8 +9741,8 @@ group_type group_classify(unsigned int imbalance_pct,
>   */
>  static bool sched_use_asym_prio(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
>  {
> -	return (!sched_smt_active()) ||
> -		(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) || is_core_idle(cpu);
> +	return	(sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) ||
> +		(!sched_smt_active() && is_core_idle(cpu));
>  }

This seems wrong. This would always return false for higher than SMT domains 
if smt is active. 

Was this meant to be sched_smt_active() && is_core_idle(cpu)? 

>  
>  static inline bool _sched_asym(struct sched_domain *sd,