linux-kernel - Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, caglar@...dus.org.tr,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v3

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> I'm not really convinced it's all that worthwhile of an optimization,
> essentially for the same reasons as you, but presumably there's a
> benchmark result somewhere that says it matters. I've just not seen it.

If it is true that we frequently remotely write the per cpu runqueue 
data then we may have a NUMA scalability issue.
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