Re: [patch] sched: decrease number of load balances

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Nov 20 2006 - 20:40:34 EST


On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> My patch is not changing any idle load balancing logic and hence it is no
> less/more aggressive as the current one.

But you cannot do anything in addition to idle balancing. You can only
draw a process to the cpu you are balancing on. And we are already doing
that. So this cuts down the frequency of idle balance? And only the first
idle processor of a group of idle processors does balancing?
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