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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, steiner@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] don't kick ALB in the presence of pinned task
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 20:06:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42EF4597.1080208@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050802094318.GC20978@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Hmm, I would have hoped the new "all_pinned" logic should have handled 
>>this case properly. [...]
> 
> 
> no, active_balance is a different case, not covered by the all_pinned 
> logic. This is a HT-special scenario, where busiest->nr_running == 1, 
> and we have to do active load-balancing. This does not go through 
> move_tasks() and does not set all_pinned. (If nr_running werent 1 we'd 
> not have to kick active load-balancing.)
> 

Yeah I see. It looks like Suresh's patch should do a reasonable
job at doing "all pinned backoff" too, using the existing logic.
So I agree - great catch.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-02 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-02  0:42 [Patch] don't kick ALB in the presence of pinned task Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-02  6:09 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-02  9:43   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-02 10:06     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-08-02 21:12   ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-02  9:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-09 23:08   ` allow the load to grow upto its cpu_power (was Re: [Patch] don't kick ALB in the presence of pinned task) Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-10  0:27     ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-10  2:03       ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-11  3:09         ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-11 18:14           ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-11 23:49             ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-12  0:39               ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-12  1:24                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-12  1:44                   ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-10  7:16     ` Ingo Molnar

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