[PATCH] sched: balance timers
authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:13 +0000 (14:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:24:41 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
commit7897986bad8f6cd50d6149345aca7f6480f49464
tree10a5e08e004ae685aaab6823a3774803455b7704
parent99b61ccf0bf0e9a85823d39a5db6a1519caeb13d
[PATCH] sched: balance timers

Do CPU load averaging over a number of different intervals.  Allow each
interval to be chosen by sending a parameter to source_load and target_load.
0 is instantaneous, idx > 0 returns a decaying average with the most recent
sample weighted at 2^(idx-1).  To a maximum of 3 (could be easily increased).

So generally a higher number will result in more conservative balancing.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/asm-i386/topology.h
include/asm-x86_64/topology.h
include/linux/sched.h
include/linux/topology.h
kernel/sched.c