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    SubjectRe: [RFCv5 PATCH 35/46] sched: Disable energy-unfriendly nohz kicks
    On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:24:18PM +0100, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
    > With energy-aware scheduling enabled nohz_kick_needed() generates many
    > nohz idle-balance kicks which lead to nothing when multiple tasks get
    > packed on a single cpu to save energy. This causes unnecessary wake-ups
    > and hence wastes energy. Make these conditions depend on !energy_aware()
    > for now until the energy-aware nohz story gets sorted out.

    The patch does slightly more; it also allows the kick if over utilized.

    But disabling this will allow getting 'stuck' in certain over loaded
    situations because we're not kicking the balancer.

    I think you need more justification for doing this.



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