Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] workqueue: Schedule work on non-idle cpu instead of current one | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:46:11 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 13:40 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 17:00 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > But this is what the initial idea during LPC we had. > > Yeah.. that's true. > > > Any improvements here you can suggest? > > We could uhm... /me tries thinking ... reuse some of the NOHZ magic? > Would that be sufficient, not waking a NOHZ cpu, or do you really want > not waking any idle cpu?
Depending on the trade-off we could have the NOHZ stuff track a non-NOHZ-idle cpu and avoid having to compute one every time we need it.
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