[PATCH v2 09/11] sched: test the cpu's capacity in wake affine

[Vincent Guittot]

On 28 May 2014 12:58, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> Currently the task always wakes affine on this_cpu if the latter is idle.
>> Before waking up the task on this_cpu, we check that this_cpu capacity is not
>> significantly reduced because of RT tasks or irq activity.
>>
>> Use case where the number of irq and the time spent under irq is important
>> will take benefit of this because the task that is woken up by irq or softirq
>> will not use the same CPU than irq (and softirq) but a idle one which share
>> its LLC.
>
> OK, so I'm having a terrible time parsing the above.
>
> So looking at the patch you make balance false even when this_load==0
> when the effective power/capacity (nico's patches haven't fully sunk in
> yet) of this cpu is less than that of the previous cpu.
>
> Is that right?

yes,

>
> Now I'm only struggling to understand the rationale for this, its got
> LLC in there somewhere, but I'm failing to comprehend.

Ah.. i have probably overestimated the fact that wake_affine was only
done at MC or SMT level but after reading more deeply the glags
configuration of all  sched_domain level , my assumption is not true.
So I need to test sd flag to make sure that their share their cache at
this level