linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:27:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...e.de, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org, jolsa@...hat.com,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Tim Chen wrote:

> We generalize the scheduler's asym packing to provide an ordering
> of the cpu beyond just the cpu number.  This allows the use of the
> ASYM_PACKING scheduler machinery to move loads to preferred CPU in a
> sched domain. The preference is defined with the cpu priority
> given by arch_asym_cpu_priority(cpu).
> 
> We also record the most preferred cpu in a sched group when
> we build the cpu's capacity for fast lookup of preferred cpu
> during load balancing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>

This SOB-chain is bogus. Same for all other patches.

Thanks,

	tglx