Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965594AbWKGRoj (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:44:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932789AbWKGRoj (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:44:39 -0500 Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:40387 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932784AbWKGRoh (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:44:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:44:11 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter To: Ingo Molnar cc: akpm@osdl.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: + sched-use-tasklet-to-call-balancing.patch added to -mm tree In-Reply-To: <20061107073248.GB5148@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <200611032205.kA3M5wmJ003178@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20061107073248.GB5148@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 603 Lines: 15 On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i'm not sure i get the point of this whole do-rebalance-in-tasklet idea. > A tasklet is global to the system. The rebalance tick was per-CPU. This > is not an equivalent change at all. What am i missing? A tasklet runs per cpu. In many ways it is equivalent to an interrupt context just interrupts are enabled. - 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/