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SubjectRe: NMI watchdog triggering during load_balance
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 09:05:28PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> Since each domain is a superset of the lower one each pass through
> load_balance regularly repeats the processing of the previous domain (e.g.,
> NODE domain repeats the cpus in the CPU domain). Then multiplying that
> across 1024 cpus and it seems like a of duplication.

It is, _but_ each domain has an interval, bigger domains _should_ load
balance at a bigger interval (iow lower frequency), and all this is
lockless data gathering, so reusing stuff from the previous round could
be quite stale indeed.


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