Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:54:56 -0700
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
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Suresh wrote:
> group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..

Ah - yes.  That was a problem.  If the load balancer couldn't offload
tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they
were pinned.) it tended to give up.

I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem.  Adding him
to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more
accurately.

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