Re: [RFC] sched: The removal of idle_balance()

[Mike Galbraith]

On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 10:23 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: 
> On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 04:42 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 16:54 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 08:14 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > 
> > > > (And puts a dent in x264 ultrafast) 
> >  
> > > What about my last patch? The one that avoids idle_balance() if the
> > > previous task was in a task_uninterruptible state. That one gave the
> > > same performance increase that removing idle_balance() did on my box.
> > 
> > I didn't try it, figuring it was pretty much the same as turning it off,
> > but just did.  Patch (-typo) has no effect on either x264 or hackbench
> > (surely will for -rt, but rt tasks here aren't sent to burn in rt hell).
> 
> So it had no effect to your tests? That's actually good, as if it has a
> positive effect on some workloads and no effect on others, that's still
> a net win.

Yeah, for clarity, with "!" removed, there was zero effect to either
hackbench or x264 ultrafast. 

	-Mike

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