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SubjectRe: CPU scheduler weirdness?

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 23:57 +0200, Marton Balint wrote:
> > > sched: fine-tune SD_MC_INIT:
> > > 14800984706bf6936bbec5187f736e928be5c218
> > >
> > > If I add again the removed SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE to flags, then everything works
> > > as expected. So what would be the correct fix for this bug? Revert the patch?
> > > Or just add SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE to flags?
> >
> >
> > Ingo, Peter, could any of you guys have a look at the commit
> > that caused this bug? Is it OK to revert it? Or a fix somewhere
> > else is necessary? I'm pushing this because I hope that this bug
> > will get fixed in the upcoming stable kernel...
>
> I'm fine with re-adding SD_BALANCE_IDLE and SD_WAKE_IDLE on
> SMT/MC/CPU levels.
>
> Ingo?

Ok, agreed. I have re-benchmarked a couple of key workload and it
seems like a good change, on top of your load-balancer fixes.

Marton, could you please double check the latest -tip tree:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

Does it resolve the problem?

Thanks,

Ingo


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