Re: [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets

From: Siddha, Suresh B
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 01:52:38 EST


On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:51:35AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> > We (Google) are planning to use it to do some partitioning, albeit on
> > much smaller machines. I'd really like to NOT use cpus_allowed from
> > previous experience - if we can get it to to partition using separated
> > sched domains, that would be much better.
>
> Why not use cpus_allowed for this, via cpusets and/or sched_setaffinity?

group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..
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