This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched: Fix idle balancing
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
0027-sched-Fix-idle-balancing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 96e8ca704b57ce160c9903ad04e19c1347f66c9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikhil Rao <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:23:29 +0100
Subject: sched: Fix idle balancing
Commit: d5ad140bc1505a98c0f040937125bfcbb508078f upstream
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]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/sched.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4692,8 +4692,10 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, s
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)) {
/*
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected]
are
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