From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262984AbVDBD7Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:59:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262987AbVDBD7Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:59:24 -0500 Received: from smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.125]:22655 "HELO smtp200.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262984AbVDBD7V (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2005 22:59:21 -0500 Message-ID: <424E1895.2070409@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 13:59:17 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Siddha, Suresh B" CC: mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Patch] sched: remove unnecessary sched domains References: <20050401162039.A4320@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <424DFE5F.2040804@yahoo.com.au> <20050401193121.B5598@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20050401193121.B5598@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:07:27PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I was thinking we could fix that by running balance on fork/exec multiple >>times from top to bottom level domains. I'll have to measure the cost of >>doing that, because it may be worthwhile. > > > Agreed. > > BTW, why are we setting SD_BALANCE_FORK flag for NUMA domain on i386, ia64. > This should be set only on x86_64 and that too not for Intel systems. > Mainly to see whether anyone reports regressions, and to exercise the code a bit. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.