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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: Move idle_balance() to post_schedule
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:43:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360780981.8957.3.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130212230017.625583020@goodmis.org>

On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 17:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> There's no real reason that the idle_balance() needs to be called in
> the
> middle of schedule anyway. The only benefit is that if a task is
> pulled
> to this CPU, it can be scheduled without the need to schedule the idle
> task. 

Uhm, istr that extra schedule being an issue somewhere.. Make very sure
you don't regress anything silly like sysbench or hackbench. Maybe ask
Mike, he seems to have a better retention for benchmark weirdness than
me.

> But load balancing and migrating the task makes a switch to idle
> and back negligible.

How does that follow? We can have to-idle switches _far_ more often than
we balance.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-12 22:54 [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL] sched: clean ups and a minor fix Steven Rostedt
2013-02-12 22:54 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched/rt: Fix push_rt_task() to have the same checks as the caller did Steven Rostedt
2013-02-12 22:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: Move idle_balance() to post_schedule Steven Rostedt
2013-02-13 18:43   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-02-13 19:05     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-15 11:51       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-02-15 13:37         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-14 14:25     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-02-12 22:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: Enable interrupts in idle_balance() Steven Rostedt
2013-02-13  8:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] [GIT PULL] sched: clean ups and a minor fix Ingo Molnar

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