linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 00/29] sched/fair: Push-based load balancing

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Message-ID: <5f31086f-3d55-4e16-9b0f-c8124de3ca80@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 23:06:49 +0530
From: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>
To: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v2 00/29] sched/fair: Push-based load balancing

Hello Shrikanth,

On 12/8/2025 7:34 PM, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
>> 2. The "nohz.nr_idle" and "nohz.idle_cpus" are global system-wide
>>     variables that can run into scalability bottlenecks on a large
>>     core-count system.
>>
> 
> I think they are nohz.nr_cpus and nohz.idle_cpus_mask. isn't it?

Ack! Sorry my brain is all mush at this point staring at all the new
and old "nohz.*" variable names. Thank you for catching that.

-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Prateek