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| author | Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> | 2009-04-14 10:25:35 +0530 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-14 11:49:19 +0200 |
| commit | e790fb0ba64bfec158e1219d899cb588275d12ab (patch) | |
| tree | f4eda89681e027cd617881773ab0559d9fced430 /include/linux/wait.h | |
| parent | f711f6090a81cbd396b63de90f415d33f563af9b (diff) | |
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sched: Nominate a power-efficient ilb in select_nohz_balancer()
The CPU that first goes idle becomes the idle-load-balancer and remains
that until either it picks up a task or till all the CPUs of the system
goes idle.
Optimize this further to allow it to relinquish it's post
once all it's siblings in the power-aware sched_domain go idle, thereby
allowing the whole package-core to go idle. While relinquising the post,
nominate another an idle-load balancer from a semi-idle core/package.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090414045535.7645.31641.stgit@sofia.in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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