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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, menage@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dino@in.ibm.com, cpw@sgi.com,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 05:14:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003051438.e1371e99.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710030525.29735.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

> These are what I'm worried about, and things like kswapd, pdflush,
> could definitely use a huge amount of CPU.
> 
> If you are interested in hard partitioning the system, you most
> definitely want these things to be balanced across the non-isolated
> CPUs.

But these guys are pinned anyway (or else they would already be moved
into a smaller load balanced cpuset), so why waste time load balancing
what can't move?

And on some of the systems I care about, we don't want to load balance
these guys; rather we go to great lengths to see that they don't run at
all when we don't want them to.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30 10:44 [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag Paul Jackson
2007-09-29 19:21 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 18:07   ` Paul Jackson
2007-09-30  3:34     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-01  3:42       ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 13:05         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03  6:58           ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 16:09             ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03  9:55               ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 17:56                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 11:38                   ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 19:25                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 12:14                       ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2007-10-02 19:53                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 12:41                           ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 20:30                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 17:46                               ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03 12:17                   ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 20:31                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 17:44                       ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-01 18:15       ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 13:35         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03  6:22           ` [patch] sched: fix sched-domains partitioning by cpusets Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  6:56             ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 15:46               ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03  9:21                 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 17:23                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:08                     ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03  9:35                   ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  9:39                     ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 17:29                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03  7:20               ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-03  7:25           ` [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 16:14             ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-30 10:44 ` [PATCH] cpuset decrustify update and validate masks Paul Jackson
2007-09-30 17:33 ` [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 20:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-02 20:57   ` Paul Jackson

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