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

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Message-ID: <20160508203154.GN16093@intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 04:31:54 +0800
From:	Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@...el.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
	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

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:52:51AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 02:57 +0800, Yuyang Du wrote:
> 
> > In addition, I would argue maybe beefing up idle balancing is a more
> > productive way to spread load, as work-stealing just does what needs
> > to be done. And seems it has been (sub-unconsciously) neglected in this
> > case, :)
> 
> P.S. Nope, I'm dinging up multiple spots ;-)

You bet, :)