linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Optimize select_idle

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Message-ID: <8521e154-b485-c9fc-708d-7d87a12a9e9e@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Dec 2019 16:57:37 +0000
From:   Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
To:     Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Optimize select_idle_core

On 06/12/2019 12:53, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Its probably something to think over. I probably don't have an answer on why
> we are not choosing the starting cpu to be primary CPU.  Would we have to
> think of the case where the Primary CPUs are online / offline etc? I mean
> with target cpu, we know the CPU is online for sure.
> 

Myes, CPU affinity also makes the thing much more painful (what if the task
is affined to some of the core's threads, but not the primary one?). The
current method has the merit of handling these cases.