The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: colpatch@us.ibm.com, Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] scheduler: rebalance_tick interval update
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41996584.5080306@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41996353.1060604@cyberone.com.au>



Nick Piggin wrote:

>
> Another example, in some ticks, a CPU won't see the updated 'jiffies', 
> other
> times it will (at least on Altix systems, this can happen).
>
>

Note that if you didn't want to have this rash of balancing attempted after
a CPU wasn't able to run the rebalance for a long time, the solution would
be to keep adding the balance interval until it becomes greater than the
current jiffies.

I actually prefer it to try to make up the lost balances, just from the
perspective of gathering scheduler statistics. I don't suspect it happens
enough to justify adding the extra logic - Darren, are you actually seeing
problems?


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-16  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-15 22:38 [patch] scheduler: rebalance_tick interval update Darren Hart
2004-11-16  1:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-16  1:53   ` Matthew Dobson
2004-11-16  2:17     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-16  2:27       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-11-16  3:50         ` Darren Hart
2004-11-16  3:51       ` Darren Hart
2004-11-16  7:00       ` Rick Lindsley
     [not found]       ` <1100576400.14742.12.camel@farah.beaverton.ibm.com>
     [not found]         ` <4199957C.1020804@cyberone.com.au>
2004-11-16 15:56           ` Darren Hart
2004-11-18 16:22             ` Darren Hart

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=41996584.5080306@cyberone.com.au \
    --to=piggin@cyberone.com.au \
    --cc=akpm@osdl.org \
    --cc=colpatch@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=dvhltc@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mbligh@aracnet.com \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=ricklind@us.ibm.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox