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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:43:19 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] HT scheduler, sched-2.5.68-B2
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>> >  - turn off the more agressive idle-steal variant. This could fix the
>> >    low-load regression reported by Martin J. Bligh.
>> 
>> Yup, that fixed it (I tested just your first version with just that
>> bit altered).
> 
> Can we make this an arch specific option?  I have a feeling the HT performance 
> on low loads will actually drop with this disabled.  

Is it really an arch thing? Or is it a load level thing? I get the feeling
it might be switchable dynamically, dependant on load ...

M.