Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:34:53 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/2] fix perf. bug in wake-up load balancing for aim7 and db workload |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > We should back out the above commit and add a sysctl variable to control the > > behavior of load balancing in wake up path, so user can dynamically select > > a mode that best fit for the workload environment. And kernel can achieve > > best performance in two extreme ends of incompatible workload environments. > > Well I don't see any benchmark numbers in the original patch. Just an > assertion that it "should" help something. > > I'm more inclined to revert it and not add the sysctl (ugh) until we > have a good reason to do so.
yeah, we should do the revert:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
but i'm quite against a sysctl knob. Especially not for 2.6.16.
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