Re: [patch 2/2] sched: reduce locking in periodic balancing

2005-08-03 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] Thanks for the corrections. btw., holding the runqueue lock during the initial scanning portion of load-balancing is one of the top PREEMPT_RT critical paths on SMP. (It's not bad, but it's one of the factors that makes SMP latencies higher.) Good, I'm glad they

Re: [patch 2/2] sched: reduce locking in periodic balancing

2005-08-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During periodic load balancing, don't hold this runqueue's lock while > scanning remote runqueues, which can take a non trivial amount of time > especially on very large systems. > > Holding the runqueue lock will only help to stabalise ->nr_running, s