Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] sched/fair: Introduce sched_smt_siblings_idle()

From: Ricardo Neri
Date: Sat Dec 24 2022 - 00:23:10 EST


On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 04:56:22PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 22/11/22 12:35, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > Architectures that implement arch_asym_cpu_priority() may need to know the
> > idle state of the SMT siblings of a CPU. The scheduler has this information
> > and functionality. Expose it.
> >
> > Move the existing functionality outside of the NUMA code.
> >
>
> test_idle_cores() does something similar without an iteration, did you
> consider using that instead?

IIUC, test_idle_cores() returns true if there is at least one idle core in
the package. In my case, I need to know the idle state of only the SMT
siblings of a specific CPU. Am I missing something?

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo