[PATCH v3 08/12] sched: move cfs task on a CPU with higher capacity

[Vincent Guittot]

On 14 July 2014 15:51, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:17:44PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> > In any case, its feels rather arbitrary to me. What about machines where
>> > there's no cache sharing at all (the traditional SMP systems). This
>> > thing you're trying to do still seems to make sense there.
>>
>> ok, I thought that traditional SMP systems have this flag set at core
>> level.
>
> Yeah, with 1 core, so its effectively disabled.
>
>> I mean ARM platforms have the flag for CPUs in the same cluster
>> (which include current ARM SMP system) and the corei7 of my laptop has
>> the flag at the cores level.
>
> So I can see 'small' parts reducing shared caches in order to improve
> idle performance.
>
> The point being that LLC seems a somewhat arbitrary measure for this.
>
> Can we try and see what happens if you remove the limit. Its always best
> to try the simpler things first and only make it more complex if we have
> to.

ok. i will remove the condition in the next version