Re: [RFC PATCH v2] sched: Limit idle_balance()

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 08:33:48 EST


On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 14:05 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:36:46PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> > May be the current max value is a limiting factor, but I think there
> > should be a limit to the maximum value. Peter and Ingo may help us
> > understand why they limited to the 1ms. But I dont think we should
> > introduce a new variable just for this.
>
> /me blames it all on Mike.. I tried to remember why he did that, but
> alas.

Only to accelerate cutoff after long idle.

-Mike

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