From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:01:14 +0000 Subject: Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags Message-Id: <42E98DEA.9090606@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <200507290153.j6T1rYg03861@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <200507290153.j6T1rYg03861@unix-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Chen, Kenneth W" Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com