Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Hi, > > Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. > > The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing > generates, > esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-18 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. Hi

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter wrote of: >> the lack of rd->load_balance. > > Could you explain to me a bit what that means? > > Does this mean that the existing code would, by default (default being > a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Peter wrote of: > the lack of rd->load_balance. Could you explain to me a bit what that means? Does this mean that the existing code would, by default (default being a single sched domain, covering the entire system's CPUs) load balance across the entire system, but with your rework, not so load

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. > > The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing > generates, > esp. on an idle system.

[RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. Paul, Gregory - the thing that bothers me most atm is the lack of

[RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is that it removes a kernel thread. Paul, Gregory - the thing that bothers me most atm is the lack of rd-load_balance.

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:57 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Here the current patches that rework load_balance_monitor. The main reason for doing this is to eliminate the wakeups the thing generates, esp. on an idle system. The bonus is

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Jackson
Peter wrote of: the lack of rd-load_balance. Could you explain to me a bit what that means? Does this mean that the existing code would, by default (default being a single sched domain, covering the entire system's CPUs) load balance across the entire system, but with your rework, not so load

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] reworking load_balance_monitor

2008-02-14 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:15 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote of: the lack of rd-load_balance. Could you explain to me a bit what that means? Does this mean that the existing code would, by default (default being a single sched domain,