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SubjectRe: [RFC] sched: The removal of idle_balance()
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On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 07:26 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: 
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:12 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 08:26 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-02-15 at 01:13 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >
> > > > Think about it some more, just because we go idle isn't enough reason to
> > > > pull a runable task over. CPUs go idle all the time, and tasks are woken
> > > > up all the time. There's no reason that we can't just wait for the sched
> > > > tick to decide its time to do a bit of balancing. Sure, it would be nice
> > > > if the idle CPU did the work. But I think that frame of mind was an
> > > > incorrect notion from back in the early 2000s and does not apply to
> > > > today's hardware, or perhaps it doesn't apply to the (relatively) new
> > > > CFS scheduler. If you want aggressive scheduling, make the task rt, and
> > > > it will do aggressive scheduling.
> > >
> > > (the throttle is supposed to keep idle_balance() from doing severe
> > > damage, that may want a peek/tweak)
> > >
> > > Hackbench spreads itself with FORK/EXEC balancing, how does say a kbuild
> > > do with no idle_balance()?
> > >
> >
> > Interesting, I added this patch and it brought down my hackbench to the
> > same level as removing idle_balance().
>
> The typo did it's job well :)
>
> Hrm, turning idle balancing off here does not help hackbench at all.

(And puts a dent in x264 ultrafast)

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