Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-25 Thread Vincent Guittot
On 23 March 2013 12:55, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > The power aware scheduler patchset that has been released by Alex > recently [https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/18/4], also has the idea of > packing of small tasks.In that patchset, the waking of small tasks in > done on a leader cpu,

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-25 Thread Vincent Guittot
On 23 March 2013 12:55, Preeti U Murthy pre...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Hi Vincent, The power aware scheduler patchset that has been released by Alex recently [https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/18/4], also has the idea of packing of small tasks.In that patchset, the waking of small tasks in done

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-23 Thread Preeti U Murthy
Hi Vincent, The power aware scheduler patchset that has been released by Alex recently [https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/18/4], also has the idea of packing of small tasks.In that patchset, the waking of small tasks in done on a leader cpu, which of course varies dynamically.

Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-23 Thread Preeti U Murthy
Hi Vincent, The power aware scheduler patchset that has been released by Alex recently [https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/18/4], also has the idea of packing of small tasks.In that patchset, the waking of small tasks in done on a leader cpu, which of course varies dynamically.

[RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-22 Thread Vincent Guittot
Hi, This patchset takes advantage of the new per-task load tracking that is available in the kernel for packing the small tasks in as few as possible CPU/Cluster/Core. The main goal of packing small tasks is to reduce the power consumption in the low load use cases by minimizing the number of

[RFC PATCH v3 0/6] sched: packing small tasks

2013-03-22 Thread Vincent Guittot
Hi, This patchset takes advantage of the new per-task load tracking that is available in the kernel for packing the small tasks in as few as possible CPU/Cluster/Core. The main goal of packing small tasks is to reduce the power consumption in the low load use cases by minimizing the number of