Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262377AbVERVFy (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262376AbVERVFI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:05:08 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:14722 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262370AbVERVEm (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2005 17:04:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:04:22 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: dino@in.ibm.com Cc: Simon.Derr@bull.net, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, colpatch@us.ibm.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [RFT PATCH] Dynamic sched domains (v0.6) Message-Id: <20050518140422.4b49febc.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050518180652.GA4293@in.ibm.com> References: <20050517041031.GA4596@in.ibm.com> <20050517225354.025c3cca.pj@sgi.com> <20050518180652.GA4293@in.ibm.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 19 Dinakar wrote: > I tried your script and see that it makes absolutely no impact on top. > The CPU on which it is running is mostly 100% idle. However I'll run > more tests to confirm that it has no impact I have no particular intuition, one way or the other, on how much a dynamic reallocation of sched domains will impact the system. So once you are comfortable that this is not normally a problem (which you might already be), don't worry about it further on my account. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - 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/