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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-10-09 12:16:40 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-14 15:02:34 +0200
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sched: Disable SD_PREFER_LOCAL for MC/CPU domains
Yanmin reported that both tbench and hackbench were significantly hurt by trying to keep tasks local on these domains, esp on small cache machines. So disable it in order to promote spreading outside of the cache domains. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1255083400.8802.15.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
index 25a92842dd99..d823c245f63b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ extern unsigned long node_remap_size[];
| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK \
| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE \
| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE \
+ | 1*SD_PREFER_LOCAL \
| 0*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER \
| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE \
| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES \