Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Oct 2007 05:41:49 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag |
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> pdflush > is not pinned at all and can be dynamically created and destroyed. Ditto > for kjournald, as well as many others.
Whatever is not pinned is moved out of the top cpuset, on the kind of systems I'm most familiar with. They are put in a smaller cpuset, with load balancing, that is sized for the workload they might present, but kept separate from the main jobs.
> Basically: it doesn't feel like a satisfactory solution to brush > these under the carpet.
We don't do a whole lot of brushing under the carpet on these kind of systems. If I gave you the impression we do, then I misled you - sorry.
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