On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:07:59PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > Currently we just try to find least load cpu. If some cpus idled, > we just pick the first cpu in cpu mask. > > In fact we can get the interrupted idle cpu or the latest idled cpu, > then we may get the benefit from both latency and power. > The selected cpu maybe not the best, since other cpu may be interrupted > during our selecting. But be captious costs too much.
No, we should not do anything like this without first integrating cpuidle. At which point we have a sane view of the idle states and can make a sane choice between them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/