Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756176Ab2J3IOq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:14:46 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52194 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751591Ab2J3IOn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:14:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1351584858.4047.32.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 RFC 3/3] kvm: Check system load and handle different commit cases accordingly From: Peter Zijlstra To: Raghavendra K T Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Avi Kivity , Ingo Molnar , Marcelo Tosatti , Rik van Riel , Srikar , "Nikunj A. Dadhania" , KVM , Jiannan Ouyang , Chegu Vinod , "Andrew M. Theurer" , LKML , Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Gleb Natapov , Andrew Jones Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:14:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: <508F6C60.1050202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20121029140621.15448.92083.sendpatchset@codeblue> <20121029140717.15448.83182.sendpatchset@codeblue> <1351533280.24721.46.camel@twins> <508F6C60.1050202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 552 Lines: 13 On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 11:27 +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > Okay, now IIUC, usage of *any* global measure is bad? Yep, people like to carve up their machines, esp. now that they're somewhat bigger than they used to be. This can result in very asymmetric loads, no global measure can ever deal with that. -- 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/