Re: [patch 0/2] fix perf. bug in wake-up load balancing for aim7 and db workload

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* Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:

> > We should back out the above commit and add a sysctl variable to control the
> > behavior of load balancing in wake up path, so user can dynamically select
> > a mode that best fit for the workload environment.  And kernel can achieve
> > best performance in two extreme ends of incompatible workload environments.
> 
> Well I don't see any benchmark numbers in the original patch.  Just an 
> assertion that it "should" help something.
> 
> I'm more inclined to revert it and not add the sysctl (ugh) until we 
> have a good reason to do so.

yeah, we should do the revert:

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

but i'm quite against a sysctl knob. Especially not for 2.6.16.

	Ingo
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