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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC/TEST] sched: make sync affine wakeups work
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On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 07:32 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 00:42 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Currently sync wakeups from the wake_affine code cannot work as
> > designed, because the task doing the sync wakeup from the target
> > cpu will block its wakee from selecting that cpu.
> >
> > This is despite the fact that whether or not the wakeup is sync
> > determines whether or not we want to do an affine wakeup...
>
> If the sync hint really did mean we ARE going to schedule RSN, waking
> local would be a good thing. It is all too often a big fat lie.

BTW, we used to have avg_overlap and a sync less heuristic to improve
the accuracy of the sync wakeup hint, but I ripped it out because it was
dead wrong far too often. You can try reviving it, but preemption among
other things break it. You'll have better luck with a simple context
switch rate heuristic, but that's less than perfect too.

-Mike



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