Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754257Ab3HVTmO (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:42:14 -0400 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:22780 "EHLO g1t0029.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753927Ab3HVTmN (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:42:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1377200530.2710.2.camel@j-VirtualBox> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] sched: Limit idle balance based on max cost per sched domain From: Jason Low To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:42:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20130822111027.GJ31370@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1376991166.1753.8.camel@j-VirtualBox> <20130822111027.GJ31370@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 17 On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 13:10 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Fully agreed, this is something we should do regardless -- for as long > as we preserve the avg_idle() machinery anyway :-) Okay, I'll have the avg_idle fix as part 1 of the v4 patchset. > The thing you 'forgot' to mention is if this patch actually helps you > workload? Yes, this helps a lot of the workloads on the 8 socket machines. I will be sure to include some numbers next time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/