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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:33:15 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: mingo@elte.hu,
 peterz@infradead.org,
 benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc/numa: Disable NEWIDLE balancing at node level
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On big POWER7 boxes we see large amounts of CPU time in system
processes like workqueue and watchdog kernel threads.

We currently rebalance the entire machine each time a task goes
idle and this is very expensive on large machines. Disable newidle
balancing at the node level and rely on the scheduler tick to
rebalance across nodes.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Index: linux-2.6-work/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-work.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h	2011-07-25 12:14:25.448671947 +1000
+++ linux-2.6-work/arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h	2011-07-25 12:14:26.568692651 +1000
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline int pcibus_to_node(struct
 	.forkexec_idx		= 0,					\
 									\
 	.flags			= 1*SD_LOAD_BALANCE			\
-				| 1*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE			\
+				| 0*SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE			\
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_EXEC			\
 				| 1*SD_BALANCE_FORK			\
 				| 0*SD_BALANCE_WAKE			\