Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] sched, fair: Let minimally loaded cpu balance the group | | From | Suresh Siddha <> | | Date | Thu, 03 May 2012 17:05:45 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 16:04 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [2012-05-02 12:31:30]: > > > > IOW : > > > > > > balance_load = 0 iff idle_cpu(i) ?? > > > > I think so, even for !0 load_idx, load will only reach zero when we're > > idle, just takes longer. > > Right ...so should we force it to select a idle_cpu by having > balance_load = 0 for a idle cpu (ignoring what target_load(i, load_idx) > told us as its load?
I think Peter is trying to find the leastly loaded among idle cpu's (in other words the longest idle cpu ;)
should be ok, isn't it?
thanks, suresh
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