Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler.

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:

> So what I worry about with this approach is that it can really blow
> out the latency of a balancing operation. Say you have N-1 CPUs with
> lots of stuff locked on their runqueues.
> 
> The solution I envisage is to do a "rotor" approach. For example
> the last attempted CPU could be stored in the starving CPU's sd...
> and it will subsequently try another one.
> 
> I've been hot and cold on such an implementation for a while: on one
> hand it is a real problem we have; OTOH I was hoping that the domain
> balancing might be better generalised. But I increasingly don't
> think we should let perfect stand in the way of good... ;)
> 
> Would you be interested in testing a patch?

Sure but I think we should move fast on this one. This has now been known 
for around a year or so.
 
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