linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] sched: Replace sd_busy/nr_busy_cpus with sched_domain

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Date:	Wed, 11 May 2016 20:11:10 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clm@...com,
	mgalbraith@...e.de, tglx@...utronix.de, fweisbec@...il.com,
	srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mikey@...ling.org, anton@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/7] sched: Replace sd_busy/nr_busy_cpus with
 sched_domain_shared

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:33:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Do we want to model this co-operative L3 slices thing as a sort of
> node-wide LLC for the purpose of the scheduler ?
> 
> the scheduler does try and scale things by 'assuming' LLC := node.

So this whole series is about selecting idle CPUs to run stuff on. With
the current PPC setup we would never consider placing a task outside of
its core.

If we were to add a node wide cache domain, the scheduler would look to
place a task across cores if there is an idle core to be had.

Would something like that be beneficial?