On 28 May 2014 12:58, Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
Currently the task always wakes affine on this_cpu if the latter is idle. Before waking up the task on this_cpu, we check that this_cpu capacity is not significantly reduced because of RT tasks or irq activity.
Use case where the number of irq and the time spent under irq is important will take benefit of this because the task that is woken up by irq or softirq will not use the same CPU than irq (and softirq) but a idle one which share its LLC.
OK, so I'm having a terrible time parsing the above.
So looking at the patch you make balance false even when this_load==0 when the effective power/capacity (nico's patches haven't fully sunk in yet) of this cpu is less than that of the previous cpu.
Is that right?
yes,
Now I'm only struggling to understand the rationale for this, its got LLC in there somewhere, but I'm failing to comprehend.
Ah.. i have probably overestimated the fact that wake_affine was only done at MC or SMT level but after reading more deeply the glags configuration of all sched_domain level , my assumption is not true. So I need to test sd flag to make sure that their share their cache at this level