linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] sched: move content out of core files for load average

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Message-ID: <1366368694.19383.22.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:51:34 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] sched: move content out of core files for load
 average

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 10:25 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It might eventually make sense to integrate the 'average load'
> calculation as well 
> with all this - as they really have a similar purpose, the avenload[]
> vector of 
> averages is conceptually similar to the rq->cpu_load[] vector of
> averages.

The /proc/loadavg definition isn't useful for anything remotely sane
wrt load-balancing or otherwise, so I don't really see that integration
happening (its a measure of how many tasks are blocked, where the
load-balancer needs a measure of how many tasks are wanting to run).

But yeah, sched/proc.c or sched/proc_loadavg.c works for me.

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