Re: [patch 1/2] sched: reduce locking in newidle balancing

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Aug 03 2005 - 02:51:54 EST



* Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Similarly to the earlier change in load_balance, only lock the
> runqueue in load_balance_newidle if the busiest queue found has a
> nr_running > 1. This will reduce frequency of expensive remote
> runqueue lock aquisitions in the schedule() path on some workloads.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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