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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> tasklet_schedule doesn't schedule if there is already one scheduled.

Correct. The effect of this is to only allow load balancing on one cpu at a 
time. Subsequent attempts to schedule load balancing on other cpus are 
ignored until the cpu that is load balancing has finished. Then the 
others (hopefully) get a turn.

A pretty interesting unintended effect. It certainly solves the concurrent 
load balancing scalability issues and would avoid the need to stagger 
load balancing. Wonder how fair it would be?

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