On 11/11/2013 10:31 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
I agree, we can't rely on the requested C-state but the_actual_ state and this means querying the hardware driver. Can we abstract this via some interface which provides the cost of waking up a CPU? This could take into account the state of the other CPUs in the cluster and the scheduler is simply concerned with the wake-up costs.
can you even query this without actually waking up the cpu and asking ???