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authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>2005-06-25 14:57:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:42 -0700
commitcafb20c1f9976a70d633bb1e1c8c24eab00e4e80 (patch)
tree7ff8e6060990889992d51d542abde31cf0d7a1ef /kernel
parenta3f21bce1fefdf92a4d1705e888d390b10f3ac6f (diff)
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[PATCH] sched: no aggressive idle balancing
Remove the very aggressive idle stuff that has recently gone into 2.6 - it is going against the direction we are trying to go. Hopefully we can regain performance through other methods. 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c21
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 5ae3568..396724a 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -414,22 +414,6 @@ static inline runqueue_t *this_rq_lock(void)
return rq;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
-static int cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(int cpu)
-{
- int sib;
- for_each_cpu_mask(sib, cpu_sibling_map[cpu]) {
- if (idle_cpu(sib))
- continue;
- return 0;
- }
-
- return 1;
-}
-#else
-#define cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(A) idle_cpu(A)
-#endif
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
/*
* Called when a process is dequeued from the active array and given
@@ -1652,12 +1636,11 @@ int can_migrate_task(task_t *p, runqueue_t *rq, int this_cpu,
/*
* Aggressive migration if:
- * 1) the [whole] cpu is idle, or
+ * 1) task is cache cold, or
* 2) too many balance attempts have failed.
*/
- if (cpu_and_siblings_are_idle(this_cpu) || \
- sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries)
+ if (sd->nr_balance_failed > sd->cache_nice_tries)
return 1;
if (task_hot(p, rq->timestamp_last_tick, sd))
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