Re: [BUG] sched: fair group's bug

From: Miao Xie
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 06:12:22 EST


on 2009-1-8 22:16 Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 09:30 +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
>> I tested fair group scheduler on my hyper-threading x86_64 box(2 CPU * 2 HT)
>> and found the deviation of the groups' CPU usage was larger than 2.6.26
>> when *offline* a CPU or do hotplug frequently. It is less than 1% On 2.6.26ïbut
>> On current kernel, it is often greater than 4%, even than 10% by accident.
>
> Its not a bug -- a scheduler without smp awareness cannot be compared to
> one without -- .26 just wasn't a complete group scheduler.
>
> At best its a regression for your particular workload.
>

Hi, Peter
Do you wait to fix this regression?

Thanks!
Miao

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