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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v5
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 13:27:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100202075716.GC17333@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed628a921002012313s622efd2eg9fa9243419de4863@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:13:42PM -0800, Paul Turner wrote:
> 
> I'm really glad that we're having this discussion however it feels
> like we are rat-holing a little on the handling of slack?  As an issue

That's because runtime rebalancing was one of the main the issues you
brought up.

> it seems a non-starter since if necessary it can be scrubbed with the
> same overhead as the original proposal for period refresh (i.e. remove
> slack from each cpu).  There are also trivial faster ways to zero it
> without this O(n) overhead.
> 
> I feel it would be more productive to focus discussion on other areas
> of design such as load balancer interaction, distribution from global
> to local pools, entity placement and fairness on wakeup, etc.

Sure, as I said looking forward to your patches!
Discussions/reviews on those aspects were hardly forthcoming during
my earlier posts. Hopefully we will see more review/discussions in future.

> 
> > Regards,
> > Bharata.
> >

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05  7:57 [RFC v5 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v5 Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  7:58 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 1/8] sched: Rename struct rt_bandwidth to sched_bandwidth Bharata B Rao
2010-01-29  8:59   ` Balbir Singh
2010-01-29 14:07     ` Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  7:59 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 2/8] sched: Make rt bandwidth timer and runtime related code generic Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:00 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 3/8] sched: Bandwidth initialization for fair task groups Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:01 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 4/8] sched: Enforce hard limits by throttling Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:01 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 5/8] sched: Unthrottle the throttled tasks Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:02 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 6/8] sched: Add throttle time statistics to /proc/sched_debug Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:03 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 7/8] sched: CFS runtime borrowing Bharata B Rao
2010-01-06  5:02   ` Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:04 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 8/8] sched: Hard limits documentation Bharata B Rao
2010-01-05  8:06 ` [RFC v5 PATCH 0/8] CFS Hard limits - v5 Bharata B Rao
2010-01-08 20:45 ` Paul Turner
2010-01-29  3:49   ` Bharata B Rao
2010-01-29  4:26     ` Paul Turner
2010-02-01  8:21       ` Bharata B Rao
2010-02-01 11:04         ` Paul Turner
2010-02-01 18:25           ` Paul Turner
2010-02-02  4:14             ` Bharata B Rao
2010-02-02  7:13               ` Paul Turner
2010-02-02  7:57                 ` Bharata B Rao [this message]

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