linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] sched/fair: Introduce overloaded_mask in sched_domain

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Message-ID: <4b684302-8685-4840-b523-84f0525a8420@amd.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:56:42 +0530
From: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>, Steven Rostedt
	<rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman
	<mgorman@...e.de>, Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, "Gautham R.
 Shenoy" <gautham.shenoy@....com>, Swapnil Sapkal <swapnil.sapkal@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] sched/fair: Introduce overloaded_mask in
 sched_domain_shared

Hello Peter,

On 4/10/2025 3:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:15:36AM +0000, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
>> Introduce a new cpumask member "overloaded_mask" in sched_domain_shared.
>> This mask will be used to keep track of overloaded CPUs with pushable
>> tasks on them and will be later used by newidle balance to only scan
>> through the overloaded CPUs to pull a task to it.
> 
> 'to pull a task from it.' ?

Right! Sorry about that.

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Thanks and Regards,
Prateek