Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag

Paul Jackson
2007-10-03T12:42:06Z

> pdflush
> is not pinned at all and can be dynamically created and destroyed. Ditto
> for kjournald, as well as many others.

Whatever is not pinned is moved out of the top cpuset, on the kind of
systems I'm most familiar with. They are put in a smaller cpuset, with
load balancing, that is sized for the workload they might present, but
kept separate from the main jobs.

> Basically: it doesn't feel like a satisfactory solution to brush
> these under the carpet.

We don't do a whole lot of brushing under the carpet on these kind of
systems. If I gave you the impression we do, then I misled you - sorry.

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