]> err.no Git - linux-2.6/commitdiff
[PATCH] sched: no aggressive idle balancing
authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:17 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:24:42 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
Remove the very aggressive idle stuff that has recently gone into 2.6 - it is
going against the direction we are trying to go.  Hopefully we can regain
performance through other methods.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/asm-i386/topology.h
include/asm-x86_64/topology.h
include/linux/topology.h
kernel/sched.c

index 0055fbfeec7b82f198799a5ad7b53e681b3e8b74..5eb6f61dcefcf173f4ae165704620b796ca6da02 100644 (file)
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ static inline int node_to_first_cpu(int node)
        .flags                  = SD_LOAD_BALANCE       \
                                | SD_BALANCE_EXEC       \
                                | SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE    \
-                               | SD_WAKE_IDLE          \
                                | SD_WAKE_BALANCE,      \
        .last_balance           = jiffies,              \
        .balance_interval       = 1,                    \
index fe8d80a157513cfc7991c11ff07c77da947dae6b..9cb7459ce722775a2907b5b47c1bba0906dd8843 100644 (file)
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ extern int __node_distance(int, int);
        .flags                  = SD_LOAD_BALANCE       \
                                | SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE    \
                                | SD_BALANCE_EXEC       \
-                               | SD_WAKE_IDLE          \
                                | SD_WAKE_BALANCE,      \
        .last_balance           = jiffies,              \
        .balance_interval       = 1,                    \
index ae9c2216dfa6ce6252435198af99dd1636256481..b23ec64df7f19d4f033c0afbce7158c16d35e822 100644 (file)
                                | SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE    \
                                | SD_BALANCE_EXEC       \
                                | SD_WAKE_AFFINE        \
-                               | SD_WAKE_IDLE          \
                                | SD_WAKE_BALANCE,      \
        .last_balance           = jiffies,              \
        .balance_interval       = 1,                    \
index 5ae3568eed0b4c2a13d52be4b19367ae1e36b935..396724a2519f0c5e17aeef1ceeb65c32c5a0b5bf 100644 (file)
@@ -414,22 +414,6 @@ static inline runqueue_t *this_rq_lock(void)
        return rq;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
-static int cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(int cpu)
-{
-       int sib;
-       for_each_cpu_mask(sib, cpu_sibling_map[cpu]) {
-               if (idle_cpu(sib))
-                       continue;
-               return 0;
-       }
-
-       return 1;
-}
-#else
-#define cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(A) idle_cpu(A)
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
 /*
  * Called when a process is dequeued from the active array and given
@@ -1652,12 +1636,11 @@ int can_migrate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq, int this_cpu,
 
        /*
         * Aggressive migration if:
-        * 1) the [whole] cpu is idle, or
+        * 1) task is cache cold, or
         * 2) too many balance attempts have failed.
         */
 
-       if (cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(this_cpu) || \
-                       sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries)
+       if (sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries)
                return 1;
 
        if (task_hot(p, rq->timestamp_last_tick, sd))