linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] sched: unused cpu in affine workload

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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:23:21 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, James Hartsock <hartsjc@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...allels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: unused cpu in affine workload

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:38:44AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We'd upgrade that to O(nr_cpus^2), which is totally unrealistic with 16,000 CPUs 
> even in a slowpath - but it would probably cause problems even with 120 CPUs. It 
> will get quadratically worse as the number of CPUs in a system increases on its 
> current exponential trajectory ...

The arbitrary affinity thing is I think a packing problem, which is NP
hard IIRC.