[linux-pm] [RFC PATCH 0/4] timers: framework for migration between CPU

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:07:37 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I'd also suggest to not do that rather ugly 
> > > enable_timer_migration per-cpu variable, but simply reuse 
> > > the existing nohz.load_balancer as a target CPU.
> > 
> > This is a good idea to automatically bias the timers.  But 
> > this nohz.load_balancer is a very fast moving target and we 
> > will need some heuristics to estimate overall system idleness 
> > before moving the timers.
> > 
> > I would agree that the power saving load balancer has a good 
> > view of the system and can potentially guide the timer biasing 
> > framework.
> 
> Yeah, it's a fast moving target, but it already concentrates 
> the load somewhat.
> 

I wonder if the real answer for this isn't to have timers be considered 
schedulable-entities and have the regular scheduler decide where they
actually run.

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