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

[Nick Piggin]

Paul Jackson wrote:
> Suresh wrote:
>
> > group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..
>
>
> Ah - yes.  That was a problem.  If the load balancer couldn't offload
> tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they
> were pinned.) it tended to give up.
>
> I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem.  Adding him
> to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more
> accurately.

It is somewhat improved. The load balancing will now retry other CPUs,
but this is pretty costly in terms of latency and rq lock hold time.
And the algorithm itself still breaks down if you have lots of pinned
tasks, even if the load balancer is willing to try lesser loaded cpus.

--
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/