Re: [PATCH] sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:38 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> 
> The initial patch here - https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/532501/
> applies cleanly over the below change and provides a micro-optimization
> for a specific case, where an idle core can pull tasks instead of a
> core with one thread being idle and other thread being busy.
> It will be good to get some data on whether this micro-optimization
> matters or not. 

I would much rather see a solution that solves that problem for the more
generic situation where we lower capacity to 1.

The whole double-balance thing is fairly inherent in the whole design,
and making an exception for just one special case doesn't look right.
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