linux-kernel - Re: sched: tweak select_idle_sibling to look for idle threads

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Message-ID: <1460561648.11954.48.camel@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:34:08 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sched: tweak select_idle_sibling to look for idle threads

Another thing you could try is looking at your avg_idle, and twiddling
sched_migration_cost_ns to crank up idle balancing a bit.

	-Mike