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

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Message-ID: <20250410100309.GB30687@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:03:09 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
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

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.' ?