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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched: fix updating sd->balance_interval in idle_balance()
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:16:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274339809.5605.13119.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274312730-3041-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com>

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:45 -0700, Nikhil Rao wrote:
> sd->balance_interval is updated incorrectly when SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE is not set
> in sd->flags. This patch updates sd->balance_interval only when we balance the
> domain. 

I really need more than that.

Why is it wrong, what are the (measurable) effects of changing it and
how did it come to be this way.

I could of course go and try to reverse engineer your patch, but it
would be awesome if I didn't have to.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20  7:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 23:45 [PATCH] sched: fix updating sd->balance_interval in idle_balance() Nikhil Rao
2010-05-20  7:16 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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