Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

Nick Piggin
2005-07-29T02:01:14Z

Chen, Kenneth W wrote:

>Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM
>
>>I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible.
>>
>
>Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive
>at all by not performing any load balance :-) The workload gets maximum
>benefit with zero aggressiveness.
>
>

Unfortunately we can't forget about other workloads, and we're
trying to stay away from runtime tunables in the scheduler.

If we can get performance to within a couple of tenths of a percent
of the zero balancing case, then that would be preferable I think.

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