On Thursday 08 November 2007 15:37, Gregory Haskins wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Bah, missed a hunk > > > > --- > > Subject: sched: avoid large irq-latencies in smp-balancing > > > > SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq. > > When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of > > iterations on each run. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: Peter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (as part of 23.1-rt11)
OK, but let's not make this default for mainline just yet please. There are so many performance regression possibilities in 2.6.24 already that we should go a little bit slower for now IMO. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
