Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:54:56 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets |
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Suresh wrote: > group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..
Ah - yes. That was a problem. If the load balancer couldn't offload tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they were pinned.) it tended to give up.
I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem. Adding him to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more accurately.
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