Re: [PATCH 2/3] sched: Move idle_balance() to post_schedule

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 17:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> There's no real reason that the idle_balance() needs to be called in
> the
> middle of schedule anyway. The only benefit is that if a task is
> pulled
> to this CPU, it can be scheduled without the need to schedule the idle
> task. 

Uhm, istr that extra schedule being an issue somewhere.. Make very sure
you don't regress anything silly like sysbench or hackbench. Maybe ask
Mike, he seems to have a better retention for benchmark weirdness than
me.

> But load balancing and migrating the task makes a switch to idle
> and back negligible.

How does that follow? We can have to-idle switches _far_ more often than
we balance.

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