Re: [PATCH 03/11] sched: Extend scheduler's asym packing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:22:52PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> I haven't reviewed the entire patch set in detail, but why can't the cpu
> priority list be handed to the scheduler instead of moving scheduling
> decisions out of the scheduler?

It basically does that. All that we allow here is the architecture to
override the default order of what is considered priority.

The default (as per Power7) is naked cpu number, with lower cpu numbers
having higher priority to higher numbers.

This patch set allows the architecture to provide a less_than operator
(and through that a custom order).