linux-kernel - Re: [patch] sched: fix SMT scheduler regression in find_busiest

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Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:48:55 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ma, Ling" <ling.ma@...el.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>, ego@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: fix SMT scheduler regression in
 find_busiest_queue()

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 23:55 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> The sched_domain will be rebuilt with the sched_group_cpus()
> representing only online siblings right?  sched_group_cpus(group) will
> always be a subset of cpu_active_mask.  Can please explain your
> comment. 

__build_*_sched_domain() seems to only rebuild the sd->span, not the
sched_group's mask, cpu_to_*_group() only picks an existing group based
on the cpumask passed in, it doesn't change sg->cpumask afaict.

That is also the reason we drag load_balance_tmpmask all through
load_balance() afaict.




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