Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i'm not sure i get the point of this whole do-rebalance-in-tasklet idea. 
> A tasklet is global to the system. The rebalance tick was per-CPU. This 
> is not an equivalent change at all. What am i missing?

A tasklet runs per cpu. In many ways it is equivalent to an interrupt 
context just interrupts are enabled.


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