Re: [RFC PATCH 7/9] housekeeping: Use own boot option, independant from nohz

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Aug 15 2017 - 11:58:40 EST


On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 10:52 -0500, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > Don't the HPC guys just disable idle_balance(), or am I out of date again?
>
> Ummm.. Why does idle management matter when your goal is to keep all
> processor busy working at maximum throughput?

If you _never_ idle, you never have to worry about it. ÂIs 100% CPU
until the end of time all there is to HPC?

-Mike