From: Suresh Siddha Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:18:02 +0000 (+0200) Subject: sched: fix broken SMT/MC optimizations X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc4~24^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8700df7c419781efb34696de7e7f49717f8ede7;p=linux-2.6 sched: fix broken SMT/MC optimizations On a four package system with HT - HT load balancing optimizations were broken. For example, if two tasks end up running on two logical threads of one of the packages, scheduler is not able to pull one of the tasks to a completely idle package. In this scenario, for nice-0 tasks, imbalance calculated by scheduler will be 512 and find_busiest_queue() will return 0 (as each cpu's load is 1024 > imbalance and has only one task running). Similarly MC scheduler optimizations also get fixed with this patch. [ mingo@elte.hu: restored fair balancing by increasing the fuzz and adding it back to the power decision, without the /2 factor. ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 1845b2e99a..ba78807eab 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ enum cpu_idle_type { #define SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT 10 #define SCHED_LOAD_SCALE (1L << SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT) -#define SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ (SCHED_LOAD_SCALE >> 1) +#define SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ SCHED_LOAD_SCALE #ifdef CONFIG_SMP #define SD_LOAD_BALANCE 1 /* Do load balancing on this domain. */ diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 5fecbbba12..d96030db8f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -2517,7 +2517,7 @@ group_next: * a think about bumping its value to force at least one task to be * moved */ - if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task/2) { + if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_load_per_task) { unsigned long tmp, pwr_now, pwr_move; unsigned int imbn;