Re: [Announce] [patch] Modular Scheduler Core and Completely Fair Scheduler [CFS]

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Williams <pwil3058@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There's a lot of ugly code in the load balancer that is only there to 
> overcome the side effects of SMT and dual core.  A lot of it was put 
> there by Intel employees trying to make load balancing more friendly 
> to their systems.  What I'm suggesting is that an N CPUs per runqueue 
> is a better way of achieving that end.  I may (of course) be wrong but 
> I think that the idea deserves more consideration than you're willing 
> to give it.

i actually implemented that some time ago and i'm afraid it was ugly as 
hell and pretty fragile. Load-balancing gets simpler, but task picking 
gets alot uglier.

	Ingo
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