Re: [PATCH] sched/eas: Don't update misfit status if the task is pinned

From: Quentin Perret
Date: Tue Jan 19 2021 - 14:04:56 EST


On Tuesday 19 Jan 2021 at 17:42:44 (+0000), Qais Yousef wrote:
> Hmm IIUC you want to still tag it as misfit so it'll be balanced within the
> little cores in case there's another core with more spare capacity, right?

Well yes but that's just a special case. But even you have big CPUs in
the affinity mask, you may find that the task fits on none of the CPUs
because they're currently under pressure. But in this case, you may
still want to mark the task as misfit because being under pressure may
be a relatively transient state.