On Sunday 07 October 2012 01:13 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
Look for an idle CPU close the pack buddy CPU whenever possible.
s/close/close to
The goal is to prevent the wake up of a CPU which doesn't share the power
line of the pack CPU

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
---
  kernel/sched/fair.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6df53b5..f76acdc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -5158,7 +5158,25 @@ static struct {

  static inline int find_new_ilb(int call_cpu)
  {
+       struct sched_domain *sd;
        int ilb = cpumask_first(nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
+       int buddy = per_cpu(sd_pack_buddy, call_cpu);
+
+       /*
+        * If we have a pack buddy CPU, we try to run load balance on a CPU
+        * that is close to the buddy.
+        */
+       if (buddy != -1)
+               for_each_domain(buddy, sd) {
+                       if (sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER)
+                               continue;
Do you mean SD_SHARE_POWERLINE here ?
+
+                       ilb = cpumask_first_and(sched_domain_span(sd),
+                                       nohz.idle_cpus_mask);
+
+                       if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids)
+                               break;
+               }

        if (ilb < nr_cpu_ids && idle_cpu(ilb))
                return ilb;

Can you please expand "idle CPU _close_ the pack buddy CPU" ?

Regards
santosh
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