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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>,
	"lkml," <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Piggin, Nick" <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
	"Dobson, Matt" <colpatch@us.ibm.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: sched_domains SD_BALANCE_FORK and sched_balance_self
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:43:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F94DC1.5040105@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050809174042.C1938@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:19:58PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
>>--On Tuesday, August 09, 2005 15:03:32 -0700 "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Balance on clone make some sort of sense, since you know they're not
>>going to exec afterwards. We've thrashed through this many times before
>>and decided that unless there was an explicit hint from userspace,
>>balance on fork was not a good thing to do in the general case. Not only
>>based on a large range of testing, but also previous experience from other
>>Unix's. What new data came forth to change this?
>>
>
>I agree with you. I will let Nick(the author) have a take at this.
>
>

Sorry I've taken a while with this. Darren, I'll reply to you soon.


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      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-10  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-05 23:29 sched_domains SD_BALANCE_FORK and sched_balance_self Darren Hart
2005-08-09 22:03 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-09 22:19   ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-10  0:40     ` Siddha, Suresh B
2005-08-10  0:43       ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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