Re: [PATCH 04/41] nohz: Move nohz load balancer selection into idlelogic

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 12:06:17 EST


On Tue, 1 May 2012, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> [ ** BUGGY PATCH: I need to put more thinking into this ** ]
>
> We want the nohz load balancer to be an idle CPU, thus
> move that selection to strict dyntick idle logic.

An idle cpu? We may want to put it on a busy cpu that is running high
latency OS tasks. Would it be possible to have an option where we can pin
the load balancer to a specific cpu?
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