Re: [patch 2/2] sched: reduce locking in periodic balancing

• To: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] sched: reduce locking in periodic balancing
• From: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
• Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:25:44 +1000
• Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>, "Siddha, Suresh B" <[email protected]>, linux-kernel <[email protected]>, Jack Steiner <[email protected]>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:

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Thanks for the corrections.

btw., holding the runqueue lock during the initial scanning portion of load-balancing is one of the top PREEMPT_RT critical paths on SMP. (It's not bad, but it's one of the factors that makes SMP latencies higher.)

Good, I'm glad they will be of some immediate help.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

Thanks.

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