Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2006 13:00:28 -0700 | From | "Siddha, Suresh B" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix longstanding load balancing bug in the scheduler. |
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:40:51AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The balancing operation is not that frequent and having to treat a special > case in the callers would make code more complicated and likely offset the > gains in this function.
This solution as such is not accurate and clean :) and my suggestion is not making it any more ugly.
With increase in NR_CPUS, cost of cpumask operations will increase and we shouldn't penalize the other logical threads or cores sharing the caches by bringing in unnecessary cache lines.
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