Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:37:54 -0800 | From | "Siddha, Suresh B" <> | Subject | Re: cpu scheduler merge plans |
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:57:06AM +1100, kernel@kolivas.org wrote: > Quoting Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>: > > # > > # "strange load balancing problems": pwil3058@bigpond.net.au > > sched-new-sched-domain-for-representing-multi-core.patch > > sched-fix-group-power-for-allnodes_domains.patch > > x86-dont-use-cpuid2-to-determine-cache-info-if-cpuid4-is-supported.patch
I'd like to see the three above patches in 2.6.17. Peters "strange load balancing problems" seems to be a false alarm(this patch will have minimal impact on a single core cpu because of domain degeneration..) and doesn't happen on recent -mm kernels..
> > > > > > I'm not sure what the "Suresh had problems" comment refers to - perhaps a > > now-removed patch. > > On previous versions of smp nice Suresh found some throughput issues. Peter has > addressed these as far as I'm aware, but we really need Suresh to check all > those again.
I am just back from vacation. I will soon review and provide feedback.
> > > > afaik, the load balancing problem which Peter observed remains unresolved. > > That was a multicore enabled balancing problem which he reported went away on a > later -mm.
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