aha/kernel
Nick Piggin 3950745131 [PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduling problems
SMT balancing has a couple of problems.  Firstly, active_load_balance is too
complex - basically it should be a dumb helper for when the periodic balancer
has determined there is an imbalance, but gets stuck because the task is
running.

So rip out all its "smarts", and just make it move one task to the target CPU.

Second, the busy CPU's sched-domain tree was being used for active balancing.
This means that it may not see that nr_balance_failed has reached a critical
level.  So use the target CPU's sched-domain tree for this.  We can do this
because we hold its runqueue lock.

Lastly, reset nr_balance_failed to a point where we allow cache hot migration.
This will help ensure active load balancing is successful.

Thanks to Suresh Siddha for pointing out these issues.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:41 -07:00
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irq [PATCH] make various thing static 2005-06-24 00:06:43 -07:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: only allow it when it makes sense 2005-06-25 16:24:34 -07:00
acct.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
audit.c AUDIT: Unify auid reporting, put arch before syscall number 2005-05-23 21:35:28 +01:00
auditsc.c AUDIT: Record working directory when syscall arguments are pathnames 2005-05-27 12:17:28 +01:00
capability.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] Fix get_compat_sigevent() 2005-04-16 15:24:01 -07:00
configs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cpu.c [PATCH] i386 CPU hotplug 2005-06-25 16:24:29 -07:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various places 2005-06-23 09:45:20 -07:00
dma.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exec_domain.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] Optimize sys_times for a single thread process 2005-06-23 09:45:30 -07:00
extable.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] dup_mmap: update comment on new vma 2005-06-21 18:46:19 -07:00
futex.c [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal() 2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
intermodule.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] setitimer timer expires too early 2005-05-05 16:36:41 -07:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms. 2005-05-05 16:36:31 -07:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
kfifo.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper() 2005-06-24 00:05:18 -07:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] jprobes: allow a jprobe to coexist with muliple kprobes 2005-06-23 09:45:25 -07:00
ksysfs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kthread.c [PATCH] use smp_mb/wmb/rmb where possible 2005-05-01 08:58:47 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] ppc64: remove hidden -fno-omit-frame-pointer for schedule.c 2005-05-05 16:36:32 -07:00
module.c [PATCH] make various thing static 2005-06-24 00:06:43 -07:00
panic.c [SPARC]: Stop-A printk cleanup 2005-04-24 20:38:02 -07:00
params.c [PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIO 2005-06-20 15:15:03 -07:00
pid.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers: use try_to_del_timer_sync() 2005-06-23 09:45:17 -07:00
printk.c [PATCH] CPU hotplug printk fix 2005-06-25 16:24:34 -07:00
profile.c [PATCH] profile.c: `schedule' parsing fix 2005-05-17 07:59:21 -07:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] convert that currently tests _NSIG directly to use valid_signal() 2005-05-01 08:59:14 -07:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement 2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
resource.c [PATCH] pci enumeration on ixp2000: overflow in kernel/resource.c 2005-04-16 15:25:58 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] sched: fix SMT scheduling problems 2005-06-25 16:24:41 -07:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] Software suspend and recalc sigpending bug fix 2005-06-23 09:45:27 -07:00
softirq.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] spin_unlock_bh() and preempt_check_resched() 2005-05-21 10:46:48 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup 2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] properly stop devices before poweroff 2005-06-25 16:24:33 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] VM: early zone reclaim 2005-06-21 18:46:14 -07:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] setuid core dump 2005-06-23 09:45:26 -07:00
time.c [PATCH] time interpolator: Fix settimeofday inaccuracy 2005-04-28 08:13:58 -07:00
timer.c [PATCH] preempt_count is int - remove cast and don't assign to unsigned type 2005-06-23 09:45:19 -07:00
uid16.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
user.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
wait.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] re-export cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue 2005-04-16 15:23:59 -07:00