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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 RFC 3/3] kvm: Check system load and handle different
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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:14:18 +0100
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On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 11:27 +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Okay, now IIUC, usage of *any* global measure is bad?

Yep, people like to carve up their machines, esp. now that they're
somewhat bigger than they used to be. This can result in very asymmetric
loads, no global measure can ever deal with that.