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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH v5 00/14] sched: packing tasks
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On 11/11/2013 10:31 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > I agree, we can't rely on the requested C-state but the_actual_ state
> > and this means querying the hardware driver. Can we abstract this via
> > some interface which provides the cost of waking up a CPU? This could
> > take into account the state of the other CPUs in the cluster and the
> > scheduler is simply concerned with the wake-up costs.
>
> can you even query this without actually waking up the cpu and asking ???

On those systems we're interested in we sure can.


Nicolas


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