Re: [RFC PATCH v3] sched: Limit idle balance based on max cost persched domain

From: Jason Low
Date: Thu Aug 22 2013 - 15:42:16 EST


On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 13:10 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Fully agreed, this is something we should do regardless -- for as long
> as we preserve the avg_idle() machinery anyway :-)

Okay, I'll have the avg_idle fix as part 1 of the v4 patchset.

> The thing you 'forgot' to mention is if this patch actually helps you
> workload?

Yes, this helps a lot of the workloads on the 8 socket machines. I will
be sure to include some numbers next time.

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