From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de,
mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler.
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:00:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060908130028.A9446@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609081135590.23089@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>; from clameter@sgi.com on Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:40:51AM -0700
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:40:51AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The balancing operation is not that frequent and having to treat a special
> case in the callers would make code more complicated and likely offset the
> gains in this function.
This solution as such is not accurate and clean :) and my suggestion is
not making it any more ugly.
With increase in NR_CPUS, cost of cpumask operations will increase and
we shouldn't penalize the other logical threads or cores sharing the caches by
bringing in unnecessary cache lines.
thanks,
suresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-08 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 23:38 [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 10:58 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-07 15:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 17:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 21:47 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-07 22:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-07 22:32 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-08 2:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-08 17:35 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-09-08 18:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-08 20:00 ` Siddha, Suresh B [this message]
2006-09-08 20:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-09 0:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-09-09 5:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-09 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-09-11 8:37 ` Nick Piggin
2006-09-12 18:37 ` [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler V2 Christoph Lameter
2006-09-15 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-15 9:44 ` Ingo Molnar
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