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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "Gregory Haskins" <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@elte.hu,
	dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	menage@google.com, rientjes@google.com, tong.n.li@intel.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com, vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	sgrubb@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: scheduler scalability - cgroups, cpusets and load-balancing
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:02:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080129150234.b57ce988.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479F4812.BA47.005A.0@novell.com>

Gregory wrote:
> > ... (1) turning off
> > sched_load_balance in any overlapping cpusets, including all
> > encompassing parent cpusets, (2) leaving sched_load_balance on in the
> > RT cpuset itself, and ...
>
> Technically you only need (2).  I run my 4-8 core development systems
> in the single default global cpuset, normally.

Well, if you're running in the default cpuset, then you automatically get (1),
because sched_load_balance is turned off in all overlapping cpusets (there
aren't any overlapping cpusets!)

So, yes, you -do- need both (1) and (2).  In your normal system, you
just happen to get (1) effortlessly.

-- 
                  I won't rest till it's the best ...
                  Programmer, Linux Scalability
                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.940.382.4214

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29  9:53 scheduler scalability - cgroups, cpusets and load-balancing Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 10:01 ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 10:50   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 11:13     ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 11:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 11:53         ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 12:07           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 12:36             ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 12:03         ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 12:30           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 12:52             ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 13:38               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 10:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 11:30   ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 11:34     ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 11:50     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-29 12:12       ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 15:57         ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 16:33           ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 15:50       ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 16:51         ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 17:21           ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 19:04             ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 20:36               ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 21:02                 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-01-29 21:07                   ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 15:36     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 16:28       ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 16:42         ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 19:37           ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 20:28             ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 20:56               ` Paul Jackson
2008-01-29 21:02                 ` Gregory Haskins
2008-01-29 22:23                   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-01-29 12:32   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-01-29 12:21     ` Paul Jackson

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