Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [Lse-tech] Re: [patch] scheduler fix for 1cpu/node case | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:34:51 -0700 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> |
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> As for idle balances, we may be able to go a step further: > follow the range rules, but do a more aggressive/frequent search.
Be cautious about how much work you do here ... while you can burn as much cpu time as you like on an idle cpu without affecting anything, you need to be sure that your activities don't burn too much bus bandwidth, or cause cache lines to ping-pong around the machine. The classic case of this has been seen while one cpu is trying to boot, and the other 31 idle cpus beat the bus to death looking to see whether they can "help".
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