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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: "Li, Tong N" <tong.n.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:25:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A51CB8.1090400@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185225015.3593.15.camel@tongli.jf.intel.com>

Li, Tong N wrote:
> On the other hand, if locking does
> become a problem for certain systems/workloads, increasing
> sysctl_base_round_slice can reduce the locking frequency and alleviate
> the problem, at the cost of being relatively less fair across the CPUs. 

If locking does become a problem, it may make sense to switch instead to 
a lockless algorithm of some sort...

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23 18:38 [RFC] scheduler: improve SMP fairness in CFS Tong Li
2007-07-23 20:00 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 21:10   ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-23 21:25     ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-07-24  9:43       ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-23 23:40 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24  8:07   ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 17:11     ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-24 17:07   ` Tong Li
2007-07-24 18:08     ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 19:47       ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 20:39         ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 20:58           ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-24 21:09             ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 21:23               ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 21:45                 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 23:33                   ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-24 21:06           ` Bill Huey
2007-07-24 21:22             ` Chris Snook
2007-07-24 23:14               ` Bill Huey
2007-07-24 21:12           ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-25 11:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 12:03   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 17:23     ` Tong Li
2007-07-25 19:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-25 20:38         ` Chris Friesen
2007-07-25 20:55           ` Chris Snook
2007-07-25 21:15             ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-25 22:24               ` Chris Snook
2007-07-26 19:00         ` Tong Li
2007-07-26 21:31           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-26 22:00             ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-27  1:34               ` Tong Li
2007-07-27 17:16                 ` Chris Snook
2007-07-27 19:03                   ` Tong Li
2007-07-27 22:20                     ` Bill Huey
2007-07-27 23:36                     ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28  0:54                       ` Bill Huey
2007-07-28  2:59                         ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 19:38                           ` Tong Li
2007-07-29  2:40                             ` Chris Snook
2007-07-28 19:23                       ` Tong Li
2007-07-29  3:01                         ` Chris Snook
2007-07-25 18:20     ` Li, Tong N
2007-07-25 19:18       ` Ingo Molnar

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