Re: Context switch times

[Ingo Oeser]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 04:48:30PM +0300, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> Ingo Oeser wrote:
> > The idle-task might be (ab-)used for this, because it has perfect
> > data for this.
> > 
> > T_SystemElapsed - T_IdleTaskRun = T_CPULoaded
> 
> The problem here is that the idle task doesn't get run at all if there
> are runnable tasks. 

There are idle tasks per CPU. If there are runnable tasks and the
idle-task of a CPU is running it, it is not fully loaded at this
time.

No idle task is running, if all CPUs are fully loaded AFAIR.

> One interesting property of the load balancer tasks would be that the
> less heavily loaded CPUs would tend to execute the load balancer more
> often, actively releaving the more heavily loaded CPUs, while those
> would concentrate more on getting the job done. Come to think of it, it
> could be coded in such a way that only the least loaded CPU would
> execute the load balancing algorithm, while the others would simply
> chalk up elapsed times.
 
So you suggest only one load balancer task jumping from CPU to
CPU. I misunderstood it. _Only_ chalking up could certainly done by
the idle tasks.

Regards

Ingo Oeser