[PATCH 09/10] sched/fair: Limit the search for an idle core

2020-12-03 Thread Mel Gorman
Note: This is a bad idea, it's for illustration only to show how the search space can be filtered at each stage. Searching an idle_cpu_mask would be a potential option. select_idle_core() would be left alone as it has its own throttling mechanism select_idle_core() may

[PATCH 09/10] sched/fair: Limit the search for an idle core

2020-12-03 Thread Mel Gorman
Note: This is a bad idea, it's for illustration only to show how the search space can be filtered at each stage. Searching an idle_cpu_mask would be a potential option. select_idle_core() would be left alone as it has its own throttling mechanism select_idle_core() may