Commit-ID: 840a0653100dbde599ae8ddf83fa214dfa5fd1aa Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/840a0653100dbde599ae8ddf83fa214dfa5fd1aa Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:32:54 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CommitDate: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:52:54 +0200 sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE Start the re-tuning of the balancer by turning on newidle. It improves hackbench performance and parallelism on a 4x4 box. The "perf stat --repeat 10" measurements give us: domain0 domain1 ....................................... -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2041.273208 task-clock-msecs # 9.354 CPUs ( +- 0.363% ) +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2086.326925 task-clock-msecs # 11.934 CPUs ( +- 0.301% ) +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE: 2115.289791 task-clock-msecs # 12.158 CPUs ( +- 0.263% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 2 +- include/linux/topology.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h index be29eb8..ef7bc7f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ extern unsigned long node_remap_size[]; .forkexec_idx = SD_FORKEXEC_IDX, \ \ .flags = 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE \ - | 0*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ + | 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \ | 0*SD_WAKE_IDLE \ diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h index fe2c032..66774fd 100644 --- a/include/linux/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/topology.h @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void); .forkexec_idx = 1, \ \ .flags = 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE \ - | 0*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ + | 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \ | 0*SD_WAKE_IDLE \ @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void); .forkexec_idx = 1, \ \ .flags = 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE \ - | 0*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ + | 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC \ | 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \ | 0*SD_WAKE_IDLE \ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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