From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755479AbZLWMwg (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:52:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754621AbZLWMwf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:52:35 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com ([209.85.222.188]:64321 "EHLO mail-pz0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754163AbZLWMwe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:52:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=dPRecc5bKHgTlUFsS8Bp7xRS5LkSoyvw8yAUgpONE9hWu3k65xrGEV/hF7AF7px0d6 AnoCL4mXb6SYgMhMk6nK/CG4s2LLooOrntNKkTwmR6OuKRRn6Cj3UggD7Ms9fKJyJzJY a/fDVf9HqT5mAKh5FTeAlmmyyC1PZksP8sgPw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1261570834.4937.141.camel@laptop> References: <1261563687.4937.120.camel@laptop> <1261565584.4937.124.camel@laptop> <1261569112.4937.135.camel@laptop> <1261570834.4937.141.camel@laptop> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:52:34 +0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SCHED: Is task migration necessary in sched_exec(). From: Rakib Mullick To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/23/09, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 18:04 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote: > > On 12/23/09, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 17:35 +0600, Rakib Mullick wrote: > > So its a win, right? > Yes - a fair win. But if load balancer moves other tasks from the runqueue (2nd or 3rd task from your ex.) and thats how we also can achive 1/2 of cpu1's time , right? Those waiting tasks could have effective 0 cache footprint too. If they were not run before - right? > >