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authorNikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com>2010-11-17 11:42:04 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-11-18 13:12:33 +0100
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sched: Fix idle balancing
An earlier commit reverts idle balancing throttling reset to fix a 30% regression in volanomark throughput. We still need to reset idle_stamp when we pull a task in newidle balance. Reported-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290022924-3548-1-git-send-email-ncrao@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched_fair.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c
index ba0556dc7c06..00ebd7686676 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c
@@ -3215,8 +3215,10 @@ static void idle_balance(int this_cpu, struct rq *this_rq)
interval = msecs_to_jiffies(sd->balance_interval);
if (time_after(next_balance, sd->last_balance + interval))
next_balance = sd->last_balance + interval;
- if (pulled_task)
+ if (pulled_task) {
+ this_rq->idle_stamp = 0;
break;
+ }
}
raw_spin_lock(&this_rq->lock);