Re: [RFC] smt-aware rt load balancer

2014-09-04 Thread Roman Gushchin
I'm not pretending to merge it now (and that why I sent a link to repository instead of patches), but, probably, there are guys here, who can try it and save a bit of hardware. Regards, Roman 04.09.2014, 20:49, "Peter Zijlstra" : > No, we're not going to merge a second rt balancer. If you want

Re: [RFC] smt-aware rt load balancer

2014-09-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
No, we're not going to merge a second rt balancer. If you want to change it change the one that is there. But it needs to remain a valid _Real_Time_ balancer at all times. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.o

Re: [RFC] smt-aware rt load balancer

2014-09-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 04:20:06PM +0400, Roman Gushchin wrote: > Hello! > > We had an earlier discussion about using real-time policies on modern CPUs > for cpu-bound tasks with "near real-time" execution time expectations (like > front-end servers): > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/24/602 . > >

[RFC] smt-aware rt load balancer

2014-09-04 Thread Roman Gushchin
Hello! We had an earlier discussion about using real-time policies on modern CPUs for cpu-bound tasks with "near real-time" execution time expectations (like front-end servers): https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/24/602 . I sad, that I had a prototype of real-time load balancer (called smart), that p