linux-kernel - Re: [patch] sched: beef up wake

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:01:49 -0400
From:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	<riel@...hat.com>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
	kernel-team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: beef up wake_wide()

On 07/14/2015 11:39 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 17:04 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 04:17:46PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>>> There's a buglet,
>>
>>> We'll not look for a idle cpu when wake_wide() naks want_affine.
>>
>> *sigh* indeed.. fixing that'll bring us very close to what we started
>> out wiht..
>>
>> The one XXX there raises the question on whether we should always so
>> select_idle_sibling() if we do not have a suitable balance flag, or only
>> on wakeups.
>
> That's what I've been sitting here waffling over, finally convinced
> myself that should the user turn FORX/EXEC off, he shouldn't find that a
> substitute quietly slipped in.. though otoh.. crap, guess I'm not done
> waffling after all.  Yeah, this will work just fine ;-)
>
> (typos fixed)
>

We happy with this or should I wait for more patches to fly by before I 
test something ;)?

Josef

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