Re: [PATCH v4] sched: automated per session task groups

Linus Torvalds
2010-11-29T16:28:05Z

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> Well we totally re-wrote the cgroup load-balancer in -tip. The thing
> currently in -linus is a utter crap because its very strongly serialized
> across all cores (some people spend like 25% of their time in there).

Well, it seems that the rewrite is more crap than the "utter crap" in
current -git. What does that make -tip? Super-utter-crap?

Peter - getting the wrong answer quickly is not any better than strong
serialization.

Anyway, I'm happy to hear that the problem hasn't reached mainline yet.

Linus