Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262330AbVBXMUT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:20:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262311AbVBXMUS (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:20:18 -0500 Received: from mx1.elte.hu ([157.181.1.137]:47289 "EHLO mx1.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262312AbVBXMRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:17:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:16:57 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] remove aggressive idle balancing Message-ID: <20050224121657.GA16183@elte.hu> References: <1109229491.5177.71.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229542.5177.73.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229650.5177.78.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229700.5177.79.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229760.5177.81.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229867.5177.84.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109229935.5177.85.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <1109230031.5177.87.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <20050224084118.GB10023@elte.hu> <421DC4DA.7000102@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421DC4DA.7000102@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-ELTE-SpamVersion: MailScanner 4.31.6-itk1 (ELTE 1.2) SpamAssassin 2.63 ClamAV 0.73 X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-4.9, required 5.9, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -4.90 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamScore: -4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1403 Lines: 43 * Nick Piggin wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >* Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > >>[PATCH 6/13] no aggressive idle balancing > >> > >>[PATCH 8/13] generalised CPU load averaging > >>[PATCH 9/13] less affine wakups > >>[PATCH 10/13] remove aggressive idle balancing > > > > > >they look fine, but these are the really scary ones :-) Maybe we could > >do #8 and #9 first, then #6+#10. But it's probably pointless to look at > >these in isolation. > > > > Oh yes, they are very scary and I guarantee they'll cause > problems :P :-| > I didn't have any plans to get these in for 2.6.12 (2.6.13 at the very > earliest). But it will be nice if Andrew can pick these up early so we > try to get as much regression testing as possible. > > I pretty much agree with your ealier breakdown of the patches (ie. > some are fixes, others fairly straightfoward improvements that may get > into 2.6.12, of course). Thanks very much for the review. > > I expect to rework the patches, and things will get tuned and changed > around a bit... Any problem with you taking these now though Andrew? sure, fine with me. Ingo - 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/