On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 15:21 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:07:16PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:

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On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 19:22 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

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 - This patch set solves the CPU banding problem I've seen with the
   older netback. The older one  I could see X netback threads eating
80%
   of CPU. With this one, the number is down to 13-14%. 

"CPU banding problem"?

If you had X threads using 80% before do you now see Y threads using
13-14% where Y is bigger or smaller than X? Is 80*X ~= 13*Y?

Yes. ~=. The count looked to be the same.

Great, that's as expected, the same work is more fairly distributed -- I
thought you might be suggesting the total had gone down from
X*80%->X*13% which is not what I thought this series would be doing!

Ian.