The patch titled
sched: increase ksoftirqd priority
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
sched-increase-ksoftirqd-priority.patch
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Subject: sched: increase ksoftirqd priority
From: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
More aggressive nice discrimination by the Staircase-Deadline cpu scheduler
means ksoftirqd is getting significantly less cpu than previously. Adjust
nice value accordingly for similar cpu distribution.
Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/softirq.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/softirq.c~sched-increase-ksoftirqd-priority kernel/softirq.c
--- a/kernel/softirq.c~sched-increase-ksoftirqd-priority
+++ a/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ void __init softirq_init(void)
static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
{
- set_user_nice(current, 19);
+ set_user_nice(current, 15);
current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx are
sched-fix-idle-load-balancing-in-softirqd-context-fix.patch
sched-redundant-reschedule-when-set_user_nice-boosts-a-prio-of-a-task-from-the-expired-array.patch
sched-redundant-reschedule-when-set_user_nice-boosts-a-prio-of-a-task-from-the-expired-array-update.patch
sched-dont-renice-kernel-threads.patch
sched-remove-sleepavg-from-proc.patch
revert-sched-redundant-reschedule-when-set_user_nice-boosts-a-prio-of-a-task-from-the-expired-array.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler-misc-fixes.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler-staircase-improvements.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler-improvements-fix.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler-avoid-redundant-reschedule-in-set_user_nice.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-cpu-scheduler-tweak.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-rework-priomatrix.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-further-improvements-1.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-timeslice-fixes.patch
sched-increase-ksoftirqd-priority.patch
sched-remove-noninteractive-flag.patch
sched-document-sd-cpu-scheduler.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-rework-priomatrix-doc.patch
sched-consolidate-sched_clock-drift-adjustments.patch
sched-implement-staircase-deadline-scheduler-docupdate.patch
sched-add-above-background-load-function.patch
mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry.patch
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