linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load

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Date:	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 06:31:59 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, menage@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dino@...ibm.com, cpw@....com,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:17, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Nick wrote:
> > OK, so I don't exactly understand you either. To make it simple, can
> > you give a concrete example of a cpuset hierarchy that wouldn't
> > work?
>
> It's more a matter of knowing how my third party batch scheduler
> coders think.  They will be off in some corner of their code with a
> cpuset in hand that they know is just being used to hold inactive
> (paused) tasks, and they can likely be persuaded to mark those cpusets
> as not being in need of any wasted CPU cycles load balancing them.

There won't be any CPU cycles used, if the tasks are paused (surely
they're not spin waiting).


> But these inactive cpusets will overlap in unknown (to them at
> the time, in that piece of code) ways with other cpusets holding
> active jobs, and there is no chance, unless it is a matter of major
> performance impact, that they will be in any position to comment on
> the proper partitioning of the sched domains on all the CPUs under the
> control of their batch scheduler, much less comment on the partitioning
> of the rest of the system.
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