On 09/10/20 13:42, Aubrey Li wrote:
> Added idle cpumask to track idle cpus in sched domain. When a CPU
> enters idle, its corresponding bit in the idle cpumask will be set,
> and when the CPU exits idle, its bit will be cleared.
>
> When a task wakes up to select an idle cpu, scanning idle cpumask
> has low cost than scanning all the cpus in last level cache domain,
> especially when the system is heavily loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/sched/topology.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +++-
> kernel/sched/topology.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> index fb11091129b3..43a641d26154 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h
> @@ -65,8 +65,21 @@ struct sched_domain_shared {
> atomic_t ref;
> atomic_t nr_busy_cpus;
> int has_idle_cores;
> + /*
> + * Span of all idle CPUs in this domain.
> + *
> + * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically
> + * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure,
> + * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with)
> + */
> + unsigned long idle_cpus_span[];
Can't you use cpumask_var_t and zalloc_cpumask_var() instead?
The patch looks useful. Did it help you with any particular workload? It'd be
good to expand on that in the commit message.
Thanks
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Qais Yousef
