From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932267AbcJZKaJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:30:09 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:39403 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752609AbcJZKaI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 06:30:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:27:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Tim Chen cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net, mingo@redhat.com, bp@suse.de, x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, jolsa@redhat.com, Srinivas Pandruvada Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Tim Chen wrote: > We generalize the scheduler's asym packing to provide an ordering > of the cpu beyond just the cpu number. This allows the use of the > ASYM_PACKING scheduler machinery to move loads to preferred CPU in a > sched domain. The preference is defined with the cpu priority > given by arch_asym_cpu_priority(cpu). > > We also record the most preferred cpu in a sched group when > we build the cpu's capacity for fast lookup of preferred cpu > during load balancing. > > Signed-off-by: Tim Chen > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada This SOB-chain is bogus. Same for all other patches. Thanks, tglx