Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762784AbYHFD3h (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:29:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752081AbYHFD3a (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:29:30 -0400 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:36883 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752037AbYHFD33 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 23:29:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:29:27 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: Max Krasnyansky Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, menage@google.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (2.6.27-rc1) Message-Id: <20080805222927.6dd95f5f.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <48991973.90109@qualcomm.com> References: <1217631552-22129-1-git-send-email-maxk@qualcomm.com> <20080802063900.6615e5ca.pj@sgi.com> <48948C3A.6050805@qualcomm.com> <20080802225127.2b0d138b.pj@sgi.com> <4895F3ED.4020805@qualcomm.com> <20080804010033.0d1b0549.pj@sgi.com> <48977E81.4040207@qualcomm.com> <20080804225636.541527e8.pj@sgi.com> <4898B873.6000308@qualcomm.com> <20080805180521.be7010e1.pj@sgi.com> <48991973.90109@qualcomm.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; 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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 19 Max wrote: > But it does seem like an overkill to schedule a workqueue ... "overkill" -- by what metric? If something is overkill, it means something is excessive. Excess (and deficiency) occur along some scale, some metric. If not by CPU cycles, then by what metric is it overkill? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214 -- 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/