Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:50:12 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7] sched/fair: Avoid unnecessary balancing of asymmetric capacity groups |
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:20:51PM +0000, Morten Rasmussen wrote: > On systems with asymmetric cpu capacities, a skewed load distribution > might yield better throughput than balancing load per group capacity. > For example, preferring high capacity cpus for compute intensive tasks > leaving low capacity cpus idle rather than balancing the number of idle > cpus across different cpu types. Instead, let load-balance back off if > the busiest group isn't really overloaded.
I'm sorry. I just can't seem to make sense of that today. What?
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