linux-kernel - Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

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Message-Id: <1251732802.18584.135.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:33:22 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	jim owens <jowens@...com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	raz ben yehuda <raziebe@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	maximlevitsky@...il.com, efault@....de, wiseman@...s.biu.ac.il,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 15:22 -0400, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> Stats updates are performed if needed or not. Same with slab expiration.
> Thats why its necessary to Offline the cpu.

Or we fix it to not do anything when not needed.

Come-on Christoph this ain't rocket science.
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