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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: High priority threads causing severe CPU load imbalances
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:44:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270626261.5109.538.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBC0D1E.3030509@mit.edu>

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:42 -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> That's less fair but strictly better than the current solution, 
> and nothing bounces. 

The fairness thing, that really matters a lot to some people.

I've had enterprise bugs filed over such behaviour as you describe.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06 13:12 High priority threads causing severe CPU load imbalances Suresh Jayaraman
2010-04-06 14:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-06 16:35   ` Suresh Jayaraman
2010-04-08 16:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09  2:20       ` Masayuki Igawa
2010-04-07  4:42   ` Andy Lutomirski
2010-04-07  7:44     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-04-07  5:46   ` Masayuki Igawa

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