linux-kernel - Re: CPU scheduler weirdness?

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:39:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Marton Balint <cus@...ekas.hu>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: CPU scheduler weirdness?

>> Does anybody have any idea what can cause this?
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_smt_power_savings , perhaps?

Thanks for the tip, tuning the sched_mc_power_savings setting helped! The 
original value of it was 0, but after setting it to 1, the two 
cpu-intensive processes got scheduled to different CPU cores, as expected.

Setting it back to 0 casused the two cpu-intensive processes to run on 
the same CPU again. So I guess I will just set it to 1 after booting the 
system.

But just out of curiousity, this strange behaviour of the scheduler 
without poking sched_mc_power_savings is a bug or a feature?

Regards,
   Marton
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