Re: CPUs and processes not evenly assigned?!

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

hubert%feyrer.de@localhost (Hubert Feyrer) writes:

>I had to run a CPU-bound program today on a 2 CPU Xen (AWS) instance.
>I expected each process to run on its own process, but what really 
>happened is that both processes were fighting for the first CPU, leaving 
>the second one idle.

>Is this expected behaviour? Definitely surprised me! :)

I tend to believe it's a rounding error in sched_balance().

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