Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 02:34:22 EST



* akpm@xxxxxxxx <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +DECLARE_TASKLET(rebalance, &rebalance_domains, 0L);

i'm not sure i get the point of this whole do-rebalance-in-tasklet idea.
A tasklet is global to the system. The rebalance tick was per-CPU. This
is not an equivalent change at all. What am i missing?

Ingo
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