Re: -mm seems significanty slower than mainline on kernbench

[Con Kolivas]

On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:24, Peter Williams wrote:
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > That seems broken to me ?
>
> But, yes, given that the problem goes away when the patch is removed
> (which we're still waiting to see) it's broken.  I think the problem is
> probably due to the changed metric (i.e. biased load instead of simple
> load) causing idle_balance() to fail more often (i.e. it decides to not
> bother moving any tasks more often than it otherwise would) which would
> explain the increased idle time being seen.  This means that the fix
> would be to review the criteria for deciding whether to move tasks in
> idle_balance().

Look back on my implementation. The problem as I saw it was that one task 
alone with a biased load would suddenly make a runqueue look much busier than 
it was supposed to so I special cased the runqueue that had precisely one 
task.

Cheers,
Con
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