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SubjectRe: High priority tasks break SMP balancer?

* Micah Dowty <micah@vmware.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 07:07:00AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > My best guess is that this has something to do with the timing with
> > > which we sample the CPU's instantaneous load when calculating the load
> > > averages.. but I still understand only the basics of the scheduler and
> > > SMP balancer. All I really know for sure at this point regarding your
> > > patch is that git-bisect found it for me.
> >
> > hm, your code uses timeouts for this, right? The CPU load average that
> > is used for SMP load balancing is sampled from the scheduler tick - and
> > has been sampled from the scheduler tick for eons. v2.6.23 defaulted to
> > a different method but v2.6.24 samples it from the tick again. So my
> > guess is, your testcode behave similarly on 2.6.22 too, correct?
>
> My sample program (and the VMware code which I originally observed
> this behaviour with) wakes up frequently using /dev/rtc.
>
> I know the problem occurs on 2.6.20 and 2.6.23.1. I haven't tried
> 2.6.22 yet, but I'll do so as soon as I can.

ok, if you see it on .20 then no need to try .22.

Ingo
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