On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 02:05:08PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The use case is pretty straightforward because we are trying to keep as > much OS noise as possible off most processors. Processor 0 is the > sacrificial lamb that will be used for all OS processing and hopefully all > high latency operations will occur there. Processors 1-X have a tick but > we still try to keep latencies sane. And then there is X-Y where tick is > off.
So the problem is -- and this isn't too hard to create -- when we saturate/overload cpu0 with just the housekeeping. At that point it would be good if we could scale and use multiple housekeepers. -- 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/
