Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Core scheduling v4

From: Greg Kerr
Date: Fri Nov 01 2019 - 12:41:31 EST


On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 7:03 AM Vineeth Remanan Pillai
<vpillai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> > Unless I'm mistaken 7 of the first 8 of these went into sched/core
> > and are now in linux (from v5.4-rc1). It may make sense to rebase on
> > that and simplify the series.
> >
> Thanks a lot for pointing this out. We shall test on a rebased 5.4 RC
> and post the changes soon, if the tests goes well. For v3, while rebasing
> to an RC kernel, we saw perf regressions and hence did not check the
> RC kernel this time. You are absolutely right that we can simplify the
> patch series with 5.4 RC.

Has anyone considering shipping a V1 implementation which just allows
threads from the same process to share a core together? And then
iterating on that? Would that be simpler to implement or do the same
fundamental problems exist as tagging arbitrary processes with
cookies?

Regards,

Greg Kerr

>
>
> Thanks
> Vineeth