Commit-ID: 50b926e439620c469565e8be0f28be78f5fca1ce Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/50b926e439620c469565e8be0f28be78f5fca1ce Author: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:44:56 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> CommitDate: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:39:03 +0100 sched: Fix vmark regression on big machines SD_PREFER_SIBLING is set at the CPU domain level if power saving isn't enabled, leading to many cache misses on large machines as we traverse looking for an idle shared cache to wake to. Change the enabler of select_idle_sibling() to SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES, and enable same at the sibling domain level. Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> LKML-Reference: <1262612696.15495.15.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/topology.h | 2 +- kernel/sched_fair.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h index 57e6357..5b81156 100644 --- a/include/linux/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/topology.h @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void); | 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \ | 1*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \ | 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE \ - | 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \ + | 1*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \ | 0*SD_SERIALIZE \ | 0*SD_PREFER_SIBLING \ , \ diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index 42ac3c9..8fe7ee8 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static int select_task_rq_fair(struct task_struct *p, int sd_flag, int wake_flag * If there's an idle sibling in this domain, make that * the wake_affine target instead of the current cpu. */ - if (tmp->flags & SD_PREFER_SIBLING) + if (tmp->flags & SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES) target = select_idle_sibling(p, tmp, target); if (target >= 0) { -- 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