From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
mbligh@google.com, akpm@osdl.org, menage@google.com,
Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dino@in.ibm.com, rohitseth@google.com, holt@sgi.com,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, clameter@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:02:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453C5AF4.8070707@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061022225456.6adfd0be.pj@sgi.com>
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Suresh wrote:
>
>>group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..
>
>
> Ah - yes. That was a problem. If the load balancer couldn't offload
> tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they
> were pinned.) it tended to give up.
>
> I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem. Adding him
> to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more
> accurately.
It is somewhat improved. The load balancing will now retry other CPUs,
but this is pretty costly in terms of latency and rq lock hold time.
And the algorithm itself still breaks down if you have lots of pinned
tasks, even if the load balancer is willing to try lesser loaded cpus.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-23 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-19 9:23 [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets Paul Jackson
2006-10-19 10:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-19 19:03 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-19 19:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-19 19:50 ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-20 0:14 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 16:03 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 17:29 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-20 19:19 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 19:00 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 20:30 ` Dinakar Guniguntala
2006-10-20 21:41 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 22:35 ` Dinakar Guniguntala
2006-10-20 23:14 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-21 5:37 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 4:31 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-23 5:59 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-21 23:05 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-22 12:02 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 3:09 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-20 21:46 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-21 18:23 ` Paul Menage
2006-10-21 20:55 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-21 20:59 ` Paul Menage
2006-10-22 10:51 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 5:26 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-23 5:54 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 5:43 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-10-23 6:02 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-10-23 6:16 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 16:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-09 10:59 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-23 16:01 ` Christoph Lameter
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2006-10-30 21:26 [RFC] cpuset: Remove " Dinakar Guniguntala
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