Re: [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 01:55:33 EST


Suresh wrote:
> group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..

Ah - yes. That was a problem. If the load balancer couldn't offload
tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they
were pinned.) it tended to give up.

I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem. Adding him
to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more
accurately.

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