Re: [patch] sched: introduce SD_BALANCE_FORK for ht/mc/smp domains

[Ingo Molnar]

* Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> They might be doing more exec's and probably covered by exec balance.
> 
> There was a small pthread test case which was calculating the time to 
> create all the threads and how much time each thread took to start 
> running. It appeared as if the threads ran sequentially one after 
> another on a DP system with four cores leading to this SD_BALANCE_FORK 
> observation.

would be nice to dig out that testcase i suspect and quantify the 
benefits of your patch. Another workload which might perform better 
would be linpack: it benefits from fast and immediate 'spreading' of 
freshly forked threads.

	Ingo
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