Re: Missing recalculation of scheduler tunables in case of cpu hot add/remove

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > >>> Aside from that, we probably should put an upper limit in place, as I
> > >>> guess large cpu count machines get silly large values
> > >>>       
> > >> I agree to that, but in the code is already an upper limit of 
> > >> 200.000.000 - well we might discuss if that is too low/high.
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Yeah, I think we should cap it around the 8-16 CPUs.
> > >
> > >   
> > ok for me, driven by that finding I think I have to measure different 
> > kind of scalings anyway, but as usually that takes some time :-/
> > At least too time much for the discussion & solution of that bug I guess.
> > 
> > The question for now is what we do on cpu hot add/remove?
> > Would hooking somewhere in kernel/cpu.c be the right approach - I'm not 
> > quite sure about my own suggestion yet :-).
> 
> Something like the below might work I suppose, just needs a cleanup and
> such.

I see a rather fundamental problem: what if user wants to override
those values, and wants them stay that way?

If you do this, suspend/resume will put the old values back AFAICT.

									Pavel
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