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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/sched.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index 472cd142e4f4..a5a6b3e60868 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -248,7 +248,12 @@ struct task_group { unsigned long shares; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP - atomic_long_t load_avg; + /* + * load_avg can be heavily contended at clock tick time, so put + * it in its own cacheline separated from the fields above which + * will also be accessed at each tick. + */ + atomic_long_t load_avg ____cacheline_aligned; #endif #endif |