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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: nohz_idle_balance
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:45:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347525949.15764.109.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfTPtCoYjiZphPqyYtmEN-jR=hbAUMLbWSkD9BoWRiVkmE=3Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:37 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > I think you need to present numbers showing benefit.  Crawling all over
> > a mostly idle (4096p?) box is decidedly bad thing to do. 

Yeah, but we're already doing that anyway.. we know nohz idle balance
doesn't scale. Venki and Suresh were working on that, but with Venki
switching jobs this work got dropped.

I did talk to Suresh about it a week or so ago.. I think he was going to
look at it again.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-13  4:11 [RFC] sched: nohz_idle_balance Vincent Guittot
2012-09-13  6:49 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-13  8:19   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 10:29     ` Mike Galbraith
2012-09-13 13:41     ` Rakib Mullick
     [not found]   ` <CAKfTPtBQ7Y1xGOe9NZw8AhNbOzGgkVMgYyXjVa1d308kdG6bfQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <1347521382.6821.61.camel@marge.simpson.net>
     [not found]       ` <CAKfTPtCvg1qxUv02-dO9qD2HiFzS_bA2Gr0mrN=8LEA3eXA7Bg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <1347522994.6821.67.camel@marge.simpson.net>
2012-09-13  8:37           ` Vincent Guittot
2012-09-13  8:45             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-09-13  8:53               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13  8:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-14  6:12 ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix nohz_idle_balance() tip-bot for Vincent Guittot

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