linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its group as target of (pinned) task migration

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:16:09 +0530
From:	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Prashanth Nageshappa <prashanth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	mingo@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	roland@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: balance_cpu to consider other cpus in its group
 as target of (pinned) task migration

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> [2012-06-04 17:33:34]:

> Now I'm not as opposed to this as Mike is, the load cpu_power thing can
> also happen due to excessive IRQ time,

Yes good point.

> Thing is, you can create an arbitrary hard problem by creating lots of
> tasks with tricky masks, we shouldn't bend over backwards trying to
> solve it just because.

Agreed. The change proposed here however seems simple enough to warrant
consideration?

> [ Also, I suspect I wrecked the ALL_PINNED muck, shouldn't we reset
> env.loop_break? ]

Yeah I think so. That was one of the bug we had in first version of the
patch (where we had not reset loop_break and redo was failing to pull task 
because of that).

- vatsa

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