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Morten Rasmussen authored
SD_WAKE_AFFINE is currently set by default on all levels which means that wakeups are always handled inside the lowest level sched_domain. That means a tiny periodic task is very likely to stay on the cpu it was forked on forever. To save energy we need to revisit the task placement decision every now and again to ensure that we don't keep waking the same cpu if there are cheaper alternatives. One way is to simply disable wake_affine and rely on the fork/exec balancing mechanism (find_idlest_{group, cpu}). This is what this patch does. An alternative is to let the platform remove the SD_WAKE_AFFINE flag from lower levels to increase the search space for select_idle_sibling(). Signed-off-by:
Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
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