Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Update blocked load from newly idle balance

2017-11-20 Thread Vincent Guittot
On 24 October 2017 at 14:25, Brendan Jackman wrote: > We now have a NOHZ kick to avoid the load of idle CPUs becoming stale. This is > good, but it brings about CPU wakeups, which have an energy cost. As an > alternative to waking CPUs up to do decay blocked load, we can sometimes do it > from new

[PATCH 2/2] sched/fair: Update blocked load from newly idle balance

2017-10-24 Thread Brendan Jackman
We now have a NOHZ kick to avoid the load of idle CPUs becoming stale. This is good, but it brings about CPU wakeups, which have an energy cost. As an alternative to waking CPUs up to do decay blocked load, we can sometimes do it from newly idle balance. If the newly idle balance is on a domain tha