RE: [PATCH 0/6] x86/cpu hotplug: Wake up offline CPU via mwait ornmi

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 21:43 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> I know that the current load balancer is too stupid to do that, but
> that's a different problem. Right now we can't fix the load balancer
> because we have no mechanisms to solve the other issues and the other
> issues are not solved because the stupid load balancer is in the way.
> 
This is not so.. If we do a power aware balancer that packs work
insteads of spreads it, its fairly easy to find who's waking the should
be idle cpus and try and fix these causes.


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