Re: [RFC PATCH] sched: find the latest idle cpu

[Peter Zijlstra]

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.
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