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
next prev parent 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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