From a52bfd73589eaf88d9c95ad2c1de0b38a6b27972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:34:35 +0200 Subject: sched: Add smt_gain The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy Cc: Balbir Singh LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index ecb4a47d4214..55112261027b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -8523,9 +8523,15 @@ static void init_sched_groups_power(int cpu, struct sched_domain *sd) weight = cpumask_weight(sched_domain_span(sd)); /* * SMT siblings share the power of a single core. + * Usually multiple threads get a better yield out of + * that one core than a single thread would have, + * reflect that in sd->smt_gain. */ - if ((sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER) && weight > 1) + if ((sd->flags & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER) && weight > 1) { + power *= sd->smt_gain; power /= weight; + power >>= SCHED_LOAD_SHIFT; + } sg_inc_cpu_power(sd->groups, power); return; } -- cgit v1.2.3