Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752190Ab2FETvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:51:46 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:51531 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752109Ab2FETvp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 15:51:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1338925887.2749.38.camel@twins> Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait or nmi From: Peter Zijlstra To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "Luck, Tony" , "Yu, Fenghua" , Rusty Russell , Ingo Molnar , H Peter Anvin , "Siddha, Suresh B" , "Mallick, Asit K" , Arjan Dan De Ven , linux-kernel , x86 , linux-pm , "Srivatsa S. Bhat" Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:51:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1338833876-29721-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <1338842001.28282.135.camel@twins> <87zk8iioam.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <1338881971.28282.150.camel@twins> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007727023@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <1338912565.2749.9.camel@twins> <3E5A0FA7E9CA944F9D5414FEC6C7122007728081@ORSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com> <1338913190.2749.10.camel@twins> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F19300965@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> <1338918625.2749.29.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:43 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > I know that the current load balancer is too stupid to do that, but > that's a different problem. Right now we can't fix the load balancer > because we have no mechanisms to solve the other issues and the other > issues are not solved because the stupid load balancer is in the way. > This is not so.. If we do a power aware balancer that packs work insteads of spreads it, its fairly easy to find who's waking the should be idle cpus and try and fix these causes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/