From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [BUG] idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle()
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:49:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081208154939.GA405@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081208152249.GI5457@dirshya.in.ibm.com>
* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE is
> set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain (2-MC).
>
> pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which is
> always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have
> SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set.
>
> Trivial fix to initialise pulled_task to zero.
> Patch against 2.6.28-rc7
applied to tip/sched/core, thanks! (Not for v2.6.28 because this could
affect performance.)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 15:22 [BUG] idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle() Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-12-08 15:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-12-08 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-12-09 4:07 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2008-12-09 6:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-12-09 8:22 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
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