Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] sched: add sched feature to disable idle core search
On 9/5/19 3:17 AM, Patrick Bellasi wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 18:49:38 +0100, subhra mazumdar wrote... Add a new sched feature SIS_CORE to have an option to disable idle core search (select_idle_core). Signed-off-by: subhra mazumdar --- kernel/sched/features.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h index 858589b..de4d506 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/features.h +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true) */ SCHED_FEAT(SIS_AVG_CPU, false) SCHED_FEAT(SIS_PROP, true) +SCHED_FEAT(SIS_CORE, true) Why do we need a sched_feature? If you think there are systems in which the usage of latency-nice does not make sense for in "Select Idle Sibling", then we should probably better add a new Kconfig option. This is not for latency-nice but to be able to disable a different aspect of the scheduler, i.e searching for idle cores. This can be made part of latency-nice (i.e not do idle core search if latency-nice is below a certain value) but even then having a feature to disable it doesn't hurt. If that's the case, you can probably use the init/Kconfig's "Scheduler features" section, recently added by: commit 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting") /* * Issue a WARN when we do multiple update_rq_clock() calls Best, Patrick
Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] sched: add sched feature to disable idle core search
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 18:49:38 +0100, subhra mazumdar wrote... > Add a new sched feature SIS_CORE to have an option to disable idle core > search (select_idle_core). > > Signed-off-by: subhra mazumdar > --- > kernel/sched/features.h | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h > index 858589b..de4d506 100644 > --- a/kernel/sched/features.h > +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h > @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true) > */ > SCHED_FEAT(SIS_AVG_CPU, false) > SCHED_FEAT(SIS_PROP, true) > +SCHED_FEAT(SIS_CORE, true) Why do we need a sched_feature? If you think there are systems in which the usage of latency-nice does not make sense for in "Select Idle Sibling", then we should probably better add a new Kconfig option. If that's the case, you can probably use the init/Kconfig's "Scheduler features" section, recently added by: commit 69842cba9ace ("sched/uclamp: Add CPU's clamp buckets refcounting") > /* > * Issue a WARN when we do multiple update_rq_clock() calls Best, Patrick -- #include Patrick Bellasi
[RFC PATCH 3/9] sched: add sched feature to disable idle core search
Add a new sched feature SIS_CORE to have an option to disable idle core search (select_idle_core). Signed-off-by: subhra mazumdar --- kernel/sched/features.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h index 858589b..de4d506 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/features.h +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(TTWU_QUEUE, true) */ SCHED_FEAT(SIS_AVG_CPU, false) SCHED_FEAT(SIS_PROP, true) +SCHED_FEAT(SIS_CORE, true) /* * Issue a WARN when we do multiple update_rq_clock() calls -- 2.9.3