sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:32:54 +0000 (11:32 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:52:54 +0000 (11:52 +0200)
commit840a0653100dbde599ae8ddf83fa214dfa5fd1aa
tree273ffb82cb6d6f48c35d94b68e54874451956001
parent47734f89be0614b5acbd6a532390f9c72f019648
sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE

Start the re-tuning of the balancer by turning on newidle.

It improves hackbench performance and parallelism on a 4x4 box.
The "perf stat --repeat 10" measurements give us:

  domain0             domain1
  .......................................
 -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2041.273208  task-clock-msecs         #      9.354 CPUs    ( +-   0.363% )

 +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE -SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2086.326925  task-clock-msecs         #     11.934 CPUs    ( +-   0.301% )

 +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE +SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE:
   2115.289791  task-clock-msecs         #     12.158 CPUs    ( +-   0.263% )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
include/linux/topology.h