Commit: d5ad140bc1505a98c0f040937125bfcbb508078f upstream
Author: Nikhil Rao <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Nov 17 11:42:04 2010 -0800

An earlier commit reverts idle balancing throttling reset to fix a 30%
regression in volanomark throughput. We still need to reset idle_stamp
when we pull a task in newidle balance.

Reported-by: Alex Shi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index ffd4f57..f4e1f4e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4692,8 +4692,10 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq 
*this_rq)
                interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
                if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval))
                        next_balance = sd->last_balance + interval;
-               if (pulled_task)
+               if (pulled_task) {
+                       this_rq->idle_stamp = 0;
                        break;
+               }
        }
        if (pulled_task || time_after(jiffies, this_rq->next_balance)) {
                /*
-- 
1.7.4


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