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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix broken smt/mc optimizations with CFS
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:42:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829034214.GA30551@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070828222718.GI1894@linux-os.sc.intel.com>


* Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:31:03PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > Essentially I observed that nice 0 tasks still endup on two cores of same
> > package, with out getting spread out to two different packages. This behavior
> > is same with out this fix and this fix doesn't help in any way.
> 
> Ingo, Appended patch seems to fix the issue and as far as I can test, 
> seems ok to me.

thanks! I've queued your fix up for .23 merge. I've done a quick test 
and it indeed seems to work well.

> This is a quick fix for .23. Peter Williams and myself plan to look at 
> code cleanups in this area (HT/MC optimizations) post .23
> 
> BTW, with this fix, do you want to retain the current FUZZ value?

what value would you suggest? I was thinking about using 
busiest_rq->curr->load.weight instead, to always keep rotating tasks.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-16  1:01 [patch] sched: fix broken smt/mc optimizations with CFS Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-23 10:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-23 11:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-23 12:13   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-23 17:42     ` Daniel Walker
2007-08-27 19:19     ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-27 19:23       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-27 19:31         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-28 22:27           ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-08-29  3:42             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-09-04 23:35             ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-04 23:46               ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-09-05 10:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-27 16:32   ` Torsten Kaiser

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