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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "'Nick Piggin'" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "'Chris Mason'" <mason@suse.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] smt nice introduces significant lock contention
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:25:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606021925.06089.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c68625$614f59a0$0c4ce984@amr.corp.intel.com>

On Friday 02 June 2006 19:17, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> What about the part in dependent_sleeper() being so bully and actively
> resched other low priority sibling tasks?  I think it would be better
> to just let the tasks running on sibling CPU to finish its current time
> slice and then let the backoff logic to kick in.

That would defeat the purpose of smt nice if the higher priority task starts 
after the lower priority task is running on its sibling cpu.

-- 
-ck

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-02  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-01 22:55 [PATCH RFC] smt nice introduces significant lock contention Chris Mason
2006-06-01 23:57 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  1:59   ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  2:28     ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  3:55       ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  4:18         ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-02  6:08           ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  7:53             ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-02  8:17               ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  8:28                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-02  8:34                   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  8:56                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-06-02  9:17                       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  9:25                         ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2006-06-02  9:31                           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  9:34                             ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  9:53                               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 10:12                                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 20:53                                   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 22:15                                     ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 22:19                                       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 22:31                                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 22:58                                           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-03  0:02                                             ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-03  0:08                                               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-03  0:27                                                 ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  9:36                       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 10:30                       ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 13:16                         ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 21:54                           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 22:04                             ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 22:14                       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02 10:19                   ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02 20:59                     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  8:38               ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  8:24           ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  8:31         ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  8:50         ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  2:35     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-02  3:04       ` Con Kolivas
2006-06-02  3:23         ` Con Kolivas

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