In one of the group load balancer patches: commit 408ed066b11cf9ee4536573b4269ee3613bd735e Author: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri Jun 27 13:41:28 2008 +0200 Subject: sched: hierarchical load vs find_busiest_group The following change: - if (max_load - this_load + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ >= + if (max_load - this_load + 2*busiest_load_per_task >= busiest_load_per_task * imbn) { made the condition always true, because imbn is [1,2]. Therefore, remove the 2*, and give the it a fair chance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/sched.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -3343,7 +3343,7 @@ small_imbalance: } else this_load_per_task = cpu_avg_load_per_task(this_cpu); - if (max_load - this_load + 2*busiest_load_per_task >= + if (max_load - this_load + busiest_load_per_task >= busiest_load_per_task * imbn) { *imbalance = busiest_load_per_task; return busiest; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/