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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:47:26 +0200
From: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
To: "Pandruvada, Srinivas" <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/25] timer: Move from a push remote at enqueue to a
pull at expiry model
"Pandruvada, Srinivas" <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com> writes:
> Hi Maria,
>
> On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 14:34 +0200, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>
> [...]
>
>>
>> The proper solution to this problem is to always queue the timers on
>> the
>> local CPU and allow the non pinned timers to be pulled onto a busy
>> CPU at
>> expiry time.
>
> Thanks for these patches. I am looking for saving power during video
> playback with our low power daemon. I use cgroup v2 isolation to keep
> some CPUs idle (CPU 0-11) and video is played on a single module (CPU
> 12-15).
>
> I have some kernelshark pictures at below link. The traces are
> collected with sched, timer and irq. With 6.6-rc5, you can see some
> timers still expires on CPUs which I want to keep idle. With timer
> patches added, they are mostly pulled to busy CPU.
>
> https://imgur.com/a/8nF5OoP
>
> I can share the .dat files, but they are too big to attach here.
Thanks a lot for testing! The images are totally fine (at least for
me). As there are still some issues in v8, I'll have to post a new
version...
Thanks,
Anna-Maria
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