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Subject: Re: divide by zero bug in find_busiest_group
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:51 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Load balancing works by balancing this group hierarchy, a number of
> groups are contained in a domain. Each cpu does a load-balance pull,
> from the busiest group in that domain to his local domain. 

s/local domain/local group/

> Since there's
> ever smaller groups/domains you eventually end up with a nicely spread
> load.