Re: Delete scheduler SD_WAKE_AFFINE and SD_WAKE_BALANCE flags

[Nick Piggin]

Chen, Kenneth W wrote:

> Nick Piggin wrote on Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:46 PM
>
> > I'd like to try making them less aggressive first if possible.
>
> Well, that's exactly what I'm trying to do: make them not aggressive
> at all by not performing any load balance :-)  The workload gets maximum
> benefit with zero aggressiveness.

Unfortunately we can't forget about other workloads, and we're
trying to stay away from runtime tunables in the scheduler.

If we can get performance to within a couple of tenths of a percent
of the zero balancing case, then that would be preferable I think.


Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/