Re: [perf-discuss] about lpl's

2008-03-14 Thread Rafael Vanoni
Cool ! Thanks Bart and Eric, I'll write all this up on my blog and document it (besides the mail archives). I couldn't find a single doc on lpl's anywhere. Rafael Eric Saxe wrote: > Rafael Vanoni wrote: >> I've read a good deal of code involving lpl's but I'd like to clear a >> couple of ideas

Re: [perf-discuss] about lpl's

2008-03-14 Thread Eric Saxe
Rafael Vanoni wrote: > I've read a good deal of code involving lpl's but I'd like to clear a > couple of ideas around it. If anyone could comment on these, I'd > appreciate it. > > (a) lpl's are used to determine the load average of lgroups, which is > used by the dispatcher to load balance threads

Re: [perf-discuss] about lpl's

2008-03-14 Thread Bart Smaalders
Rafael Vanoni wrote: > I've read a good deal of code involving lpl's but I'd like to clear a > couple of ideas around it. If anyone could comment on these, I'd > appreciate it. > > (a) lpl's are used to determine the load average of lgroups, which is > used by the dispatcher to load balance thread

[perf-discuss] about lpl's

2008-03-14 Thread Rafael Vanoni
I've read a good deal of code involving lpl's but I'd like to clear a couple of ideas around it. If anyone could comment on these, I'd appreciate it. (a) lpl's are used to determine the load average of lgroups, which is used by the dispatcher to load balance threads around (b) each lgrp has a lpl