Re: linux scheduler and "cache-mate" processors

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

> 1) does the scheduler know enough to try to spread tasks
> equally over both the pairs to make best use of the 16MB total
> cache? (i.e. given cpu bound processes "1" and "2", if they
> are both on CPU "A", then the "C-D" cache remains unused, but
> keeping "1" on "a" and "2" on "C" would tend to minimize
> their caches being consumed by each other.

yes this works just fine


> 2) Since either A&B both have access to the 8MB cache, then
> if a process was running on "A", it seems it would have a
> low migration cost to be scheduled on "B" -- i.e. shouldn't
> the process, if it were migrated to "A"'s "cache-mate", "B",
> be able to benefit by any previous caching done on "A"? 
> If that's true, does the scheduler give preference, when
> migrating a process, to a CPU's "cache-mate"? 

afaik yes as well