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| author | Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> | 2005-06-25 14:57:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-25 16:24:42 -0700 |
| commit | cafb20c1f9976a70d633bb1e1c8c24eab00e4e80 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ff8e6060990889992d51d542abde31cf0d7a1ef /kernel | |
| parent | a3f21bce1fefdf92a4d1705e888d390b10f3ac6f (diff) | |
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[PATCH] sched: no aggressive idle balancing
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 5ae3568eed0b..396724a2519f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -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)) |