Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:01:00 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
        Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
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        Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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        Changlong Xie <changlongx.xie@intel.com>, sgruszka@redhat.com,
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Subject: Re: [patch v8 9/9] sched/tg: remove blocked_load_avg in balance
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:20:46AM -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> wrote:
> > blocked_load_avg sometime is too heavy and far bigger than runnable load
> > avg, that make balance make wrong decision. So remove it.
> 
> Ok so this is  going to have terrible effects on the correctness of
> shares distribution; I'm fairly opposed to it in its present form.

Should someone take a look at the LTP cgroup tests to make sure they
cover this properly?
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