linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:09:11 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...e.de, x86@...nel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        jolsa@...hat.com,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:23:53PM -0800, 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.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>

With the two little edits below:

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

> ---
>  include/linux/sched.h |  4 ++++
>  kernel/sched/core.c   | 15 ++++++++++++++
>  kernel/sched/fair.c   | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  kernel/sched/sched.h  |  6 ++++++
>  4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 348f51b..ca02475 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1057,6 +1057,10 @@ static inline int cpu_numa_flags(void)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +int arch_asym_cpu_priority(int cpu);

extern

> +int arch_asym_max_cpu_and(const struct cpumask *mask1,
> +			  const struct cpumask *mask2);
> +

And that needs to go too; that function no longer exists.

>  struct sched_domain_attr {
>  	int relax_domain_level;
>  };