On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:56:16PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > > one or more, it is unnecessary for the common case.
> >
> > The common case is an arch with much less cpus. The maxinum on i386
> > f.e. is 255 meaning 8 bytes. That fits in the cacheline that is already
> > used for the stack frame of the calling function.
>
> Ughh. Wrong. 255 cpus require 32 bytes. System rarely have that
> much. If you configure a kernel with less than 32 cpus then this will be
> one word on the stack.
>
> Also note that the patch restricts the search to online cpus. The
> scheduler will check offline cpus without this patch. That may actually
> result in speed improvements since the cachelines from offline cpus are
> no longer brought in during the search for the busiest group / cpu.
This should not be the case. The sched-domain structure should always
reflect the online CPUs only (see our hotplug cpu handler), and if you
find otherwise then that would be a bug.
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