From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030280AbWHXEjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:39:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030281AbWHXEjY (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:39:24 -0400 Received: from omta02sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.93.154]:35824 "EHLO omta02sl.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030280AbWHXEjX (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:39:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44ED2D78.7090304@bigpond.net.au> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:39:20 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Paredes CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: SMP Affinity and nice References: <38798.127.0.0.1.1156346673.squirrel@forexproject.com> <44ED0121.5080702@bigpond.net.au> <3bfa83ed0608231920h5d9ef2bbxee71badedb38e3f7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3bfa83ed0608231920h5d9ef2bbxee71badedb38e3f7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta02sl.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.128.202] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:39:21 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rich Paredes wrote: > Hi Peter. 2.6.5 > OK. That version does not take tasks' nice values into account when doing load balancing and just tries to evenly distribute the tasks among the CPUs. The smpnice patches (to be included in the 2.6.18 kernel) change this so that nice is taken into account when load balancing is done and should fix your problem. Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce