Paul Jackson wrote:
Suresh wrote:
group of pinned tasks can completely skew the system load balancing..
Ah - yes. That was a problem. If the load balancer couldn't offload
tasks from one or two of the most loaded CPUs (perhaps because they
were pinned.) it tended to give up.
I believe that Christoph is actively working that problem. Adding him
to the cc list, so he can explain the state of this work more
accurately.
It is somewhat improved. The load balancing will now retry other CPUs,
but this is pretty costly in terms of latency and rq lock hold time.
And the algorithm itself still breaks down if you have lots of pinned
tasks, even if the load balancer is willing to try lesser loaded cpus.
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