linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] sched: CPU topology try

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:37:16 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: CPU topology try

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:32:18PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> In my old power aware scheduling patchset, I had tried the 95 to 99. But
> all those values will lead imbalance when we test while(1) like cases.
> like in a 24LCPUs groups, 24*5% > 1. So, finally use 100% as overload
> indicator. And in testing 100% works well to find overload since few
> system service involved. :)

Ah indeed, so 100% it is ;-)
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