Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] sched: Clean-ups and asymmetric cpu capacity support

From: Morten Rasmussen
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 04:32:28 EST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 06:03:11PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The scheduler is currently not doing much to help performance on systems with
> asymmetric compute capacities (read ARM big.LITTLE). This series improves the
> situation with a few tweaks mainly to the task wake-up path that considers
> compute capacity at wake-up and not just whether a cpu is idle for these
> systems. This gives us consistent, and potentially higher, throughput in
> partially utilized scenarios. SMP behaviour and performance should be
> unaffected.

Peter, Vincent: Any chance you have time for another look?

Thanks,
Morten