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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> (by way of Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>)
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] sched: Enable wake balancing for the SMT/HT domain
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:58:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091024125853.35143117@infradead.org> (raw)

Subject: sched: Enable wake balancing for the SMT/HT domain
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

Logical CPUs that are part of a hyperthreading/SMT set are equivalent
in terms of where to execute a task; after all they share pretty much
all resources including the L1 cache.

This means that if task A wakes up task B, we should really consider
all logical CPUs in the SMT/HT set to run task B, not just the CPU that
task A is running on; in case task A keeps running, task B now gets to 
execute with no latency. In the case where task A then immediately goes
to wait for a response from task B, nothing is lost due to the aforementioned
equivalency.

This patch turns on the "balance on wakup" and turns of "affine wakeups"
for the SMT/HT scheduler domain to get this lower latency behavior.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index fc0bf3e..3665dc2 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void);
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE			\
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC			\
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK			\
-				| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE			\
-				| 1*SD_WAKE_AFFINE			\
+				| 1*SD_BALANCE_WAKE			\
+				| 0*SD_WAKE_AFFINE			\
 				| 1*SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER			\
 				| 0*SD_POWERSAVINGS_BALANCE		\
 				| 0*SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES		\


-- 
Arjan van de Ven 	Intel Open Source Technology Centre
For development, discussion and tips for power savings, 
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-24 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-24 19:58 Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-10-24 20:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: Add aggressive load balancing for certain situations Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-24 20:07   ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: Disable affine wakeups by default Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-25  6:55     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-25 16:51       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-25 17:38         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-25 19:33           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-25 22:04             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  1:53               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-26  4:38                 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  4:52                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26  5:08                     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  5:36                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26  5:47                         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  5:57                           ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  7:01                             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-26  7:05                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26 11:33                                 ` Suresh Siddha
2009-11-10 21:59                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-11  6:01                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-27 14:35                 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-28  7:25                   ` Mike Galbraith
2009-10-28 18:36                     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-04 19:33                   ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Check for an idle shared cache in select_task_rq_fair() tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2009-11-04 20:37                     ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-04 21:41                       ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-05  9:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-05  9:57                       ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-05 10:00                         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-11-06  7:09                         ` [tip:sched/core] sched: Fix affinity logic " tip-bot for Mike Galbraith
2009-10-26  5:21             ` [PATCH 3/3] sched: Disable affine wakeups by default Mike Galbraith
2009-10-25  8:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-25  8:01   ` [PATCH 2/3] sched: Add aggressive load balancing for certain situations Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-25 11:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-25  8:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched: Enable wake balancing for the SMT/HT domain Peter Zijlstra

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