Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] sched, fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balancethe group

[Suresh Siddha]

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 16:04 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> [2012-05-02 12:31:30]:
> 
> > > IOW :
> > > 
> > > 		balance_load = 0 iff idle_cpu(i) ??
> > 
> > I think so, even for !0 load_idx, load will only reach zero when we're
> > idle, just takes longer.
> 
> Right ...so should we force it to select a idle_cpu by having
> balance_load = 0 for a idle cpu (ignoring what target_load(i, load_idx)
> told us as its load?

I think Peter is trying to find the leastly loaded among idle cpu's (in
other words the longest idle cpu ;)

should be ok, isn't it?

thanks,
suresh



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