On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:37 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
I think you need to present numbers showing benefit. Crawling all over a mostly idle (4096p?) box is decidedly bad thing to do.
Yeah, but we're already doing that anyway.. we know nohz idle balance doesn't scale. Venki and Suresh were working on that, but with Venki switching jobs this work got dropped.
I did talk to Suresh about it a week or so ago.. I think he was going to look at it again.