Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

Andrew Theurer (habanero@us.ibm.com)
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:06:22 -0500


On Friday 11 July 2003 14:54, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:37:12PM -0500, Andrew Theurer wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2003 09:02, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Process scheduler improvements.
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > - Scheduler is now Hyperthreading SMP aware and will disperse processes
> > > over physically different CPUs, instead of just over logical CPUs.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is not in 2.5 (unless it's in bk after 2.5.75)
>
> Wrong, grep for sibling.

I don't see sibling mentioned anywhere in the context of load balance, only in
smpboot.c. Where exactly do you see any HT awareness in load balance?

-Andrew Theurer
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