Re: [PATCH v1] sched: fix nohz idle load balancer issues

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Wed Sep 28 2011 - 00:39:28 EST


* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-09-28 10:04:27]:

> unless we want to go for more sophisticated like a sorted list of
> rq->next_balance in a rb-tree

Given that this list will need to be global (and not per-cpu) and it will need
to be updated reqularly (even when cpus are busy and as they update their
rq->next_balance), that will probably not fly!

- vatsa
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