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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Load balancing problem in 2.6.2-mm1
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:25:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <242810000.1076113505@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40242D14.6070908@cyberone.com.au>

>> Not sure how true that turns out to be in practice ... probably depends
>> heavily on both the workload (how heavily it's using the cache) and the
>> chip (larger caches have proportionately more to lose).
>> 
>> As we go forward in time, cache warmth gets increasingly important, as
>> CPUs accelerate speeds quicker than memory. Cache sizes also get larger.
>> I'd really like us to be conservative here - the unfairness thing is 
>> really hard to hit anyway - you need a static number of processes that
>> don't ever block on IO or anything.
> 
> Can we keep current behaviour default, and if arches want to
> override it they can? And if someone one day does testing to
> show it really isn't a good idea, then we can change the default.

Well, that should be a pretty easy test to do. I'll try it.

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-07  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-06  9:24 [PATCH] Load balancing problem in 2.6.2-mm1 Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06  9:38 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 18:13   ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 21:57     ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 22:30       ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 22:40         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 22:49           ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 23:08             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 10:30 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-06 18:15   ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 18:39     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06 22:02       ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 22:34         ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 22:48           ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 22:42         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06 22:53           ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 23:11           ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-06 23:20             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 23:33               ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06 23:41                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-06 23:47                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-07  0:11                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-07  0:25                       ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2004-02-07  0:31                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-07  9:50                           ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-08  0:40                             ` Rick Lindsley
2004-02-08  1:12                               ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-08  1:21                                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-08  1:41                                   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-08  3:20                                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-08  3:57                                       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-08  4:05                                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-08 12:14                                           ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-08  1:22                                 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-09 16:37                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-09 16:43                         ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-02-06 18:33   ` Martin J. Bligh

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