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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] sched/fair: Avoid unnecessary balancing of asymmetric capacity groups
    On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:20:51PM +0000, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
    > On systems with asymmetric cpu capacities, a skewed load distribution
    > might yield better throughput than balancing load per group capacity.
    > For example, preferring high capacity cpus for compute intensive tasks
    > leaving low capacity cpus idle rather than balancing the number of idle
    > cpus across different cpu types. Instead, let load-balance back off if
    > the busiest group isn't really overloaded.

    I'm sorry. I just can't seem to make sense of that today. What?

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