Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler.

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:40:51AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > The balancing operation is not that frequent and having to treat a special 
> > case in the callers would make code more complicated and likely offset the
> > gains in this function.
> 
> This solution as such is not accurate and clean :) and my suggestion is
> not making it any more ugly.
> 
> With increase in NR_CPUS, cost of cpumask operations will increase and 
> we shouldn't penalize the other logical threads or cores sharing the caches by
> bringing in unnecessary cache lines.

One cacheline sized 128bytes will support all 1024 cpus that IA64 allows. 
cacheline align the cpumask?

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