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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2016-04-28 12:49:38 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-05-05 09:24:00 +0200
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sched/core: Enable increased load resolution on 64-bit kernels
Mike ran into the low load resolution limitation on his big machine. So reenable these bits; nobody could ever reproduce/analyze the reported power usage claim and Google has been running with this for years as well. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/sched.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/sched.h10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 0b6a838..066a4c2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -49,11 +49,13 @@ static inline void cpu_load_update_active(struct rq *this_rq) { }
* and does not change the user-interface for setting shares/weights.
*
* We increase resolution only if we have enough bits to allow this increased
- * resolution (i.e. BITS_PER_LONG > 32). The costs for increasing resolution
- * when BITS_PER_LONG <= 32 are pretty high and the returns do not justify the
- * increased costs.
+ * resolution (i.e. 64bit). The costs for increasing resolution when 32bit are
+ * pretty high and the returns do not justify the increased costs.
+ *
+ * Really only required when CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED is also set, but to
+ * increase coverage and consistency always enable it on 64bit platforms.
*/
-#if 0 /* BITS_PER_LONG > 32 -- currently broken: it increases power usage under light load */
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
# define SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION 10
# define scale_load(w) ((w) << SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION)
# define scale_load_down(w) ((w) >> SCHED_LOAD_RESOLUTION)
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