Re: High priority tasks break SMP balancer?

From: Micah Dowty
Date: Tue Nov 20 2007 - 13:06:55 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:57:55AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Micah Dowty <micah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > this one is being triggered whenever a cpu becomes idle (schedule()
> > > --> idle_balance() --> load_balance_newidle()).
> > >
> > > (this flag is a bit #1 == 2)
> > >
> > > cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/flags
> >
> > Hmm. I don't have this file on my system:
> >
> > root@micah-64:/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0# ls
> > busy_factor busy_idx forkexec_idx idle_idx imbalance_pct max_interval min_interval newidle_idx wake_idx
> > root@micah-64:/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0# uname -a
> > Linux micah-64 2.6.23.1 #1 SMP Fri Nov 2 12:25:47 PDT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Is there a config option I'm missing?
>
> yes, CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG.

I have that one. I even posted the /proc/sched_debug output :)

--Micah

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/