[RFC PATCH v3 3/6] sched: pack small tasks

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Mar 27 07:18:55 EDT 2013


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:00:20AM +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 09:54 +0100, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > It's not mandatory to have little cores on low numbers even if it's
> > advised
> 
> ARGH!

I haven't followed this thread closely, so just a random comment from
me. An argument from some is that they want to boot Linux on the big CPU
to be quicker. The most convenient is to have the big CPU at 0.

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Catalin



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