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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0 of 2] credit2: Reduce excessive cpu migration
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:55:15 +0000
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More recent processors have one L2 per core.  My plan for the credit2
scheduler invovled having several cores sharing the same runqueue.

I've measured the cost of excessive cross-L2 intra-L3 migrations, and while
they're not excessive, they are measurable.  This patch series introduces
some simple heuristics to reduce unnecessary migration.

As in all the Credit2 work, this is a first cut, and I'm sure there are
further improvments.