linux-kernel - Re: [patch] sched: decrease number of load balances

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Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:39:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
cc:	mingo@...e.hu, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kenneth.w.chen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: decrease number of load balances

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:

> +		if (local_group && balance_cpu != this_cpu && balance) {
								^^^^^

This would need to be *balance right? balance is always != 0.

> +			*balance = 0;
> +			goto ret;
> +		}

How well was this patch tested?

We already have idle processors pulling processes from elsewhere in the 
system. Load balancing on an idle processor could only replicate the 
balance on idle logic.

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