Re: Rescheduling interrupts

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 17:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * S.ÃaÄlar Onur <caglar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > My theory is that for whatever reason we get "repeat" IPIs: multiple 
> > > reschedule IPIs although the other CPU only initiated one.
> > 
> > Ok, please see http://cekirdek.pardus.org.tr/~caglar/dmesg.3rd :)
> 
> hm, the IPI sending and receiving is nicely paired up:
> 
> [  625.795008] IPI (@smp_reschedule_interrupt) from task swapper:0 on CPU#1:
> [  625.795223] IPI (@native_smp_send_reschedule) from task amarokapp:2882 on CPU#1:
> 
> amarokapp does wake up threads every 20 microseconds - that could 
> explain it. It's probably Xorg running on one core, amarokapp on the 
> other core. That's already 100 reschedules/sec.

That suggests we want an "anti-load-balancing" heuristic when CPU usage
is very low. Migrating everything onto one core when we're close to idle
will save power and probably reduce latencies.

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